JVMI Library

The JVMI Library includes the texts of key international human rights conventions, Iran’s constitution and penal code and other relevant documents and reports related to the human rights situation in Iran, with special focus on the 1988 Massacre.

October 2017: NEW JVMI REPORT – 1988 Massacre in Iran: Evidence of a Crime Against Humanity

October 20, 2017

Asma Jahangir UN Special Rapporteur on Iran

August 2017: New report by UN Special Rapporteur draws attention to Iran’s 1988 massacre

August 30, 2017

June 2017: Letter by UN Special Procedures to Iran over the crackdown on individuals seeking justice for the 1988 massacre

August 15, 2017

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres Iran

March 2017: UN chief warns of crackdown against dissidents seeking justice over Iran’s 1988 massacre

March 30, 2017

March 2017: Asma Jahangir highlights clampdown on dissidents calling for justice over Iran’s 1988 massacre

March 17, 2017

Book Inquiry into the 1988 mass execution in Iran

February 2017: JVMI report ‘Inquiry into the 1988 mass executions in Iran’

March 15, 2017

The United Nations General Assembly's Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) approved a draft resolution on 15 November 2016, which pertained to the human rights situation in Iran.

November 2016 – UN Third Committee approves draft resolution on rights abuses in Iran

November 17, 2016

Hossein-Ali Montazeri's letter to Ayatollah Khomeini about the execution of 13-year-old girls in Iran, 27 September 1981

Secret letter by Khomeini’s deputy acknowledges execution of 13-year-old girls in Iran

October 3, 2016

Audio transcript of Iran officials’ remarks about 1988 massacre

September 29, 2016