Helena Kennedy

Transcript: Remarks by IBAHRI Director Baroness Helena Kennedy at JVMI Civil Society Hearing Into Iran’s 1988 Massacre

Verbatim transcript of remarks by Baroness Helena Kennedy KC, Director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), at a Civil Society Hearing on the 1988 Massacre in Iran – 15 February 2024, Geneva: Hello! Good morning. I really want to apologize to you for not joining you in person. I am Baroness Helena […]

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UN experts join survivors of the 1988 massacre in urging accountability for ongoing crimes against humanity in Iran

15 February 2024 – The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran and the Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances joined survivors of the 1988 massacre and victims’ families in calling for an independent international inquiry into the mass extra-judicial executions and enforced disappearances of thousands of political prisoners in Iran.

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