Tahar Boumedra

West must stand with Iranians against their abusive regime. The regime in Iran is among the worst human rights abusers in the world

IBTimes: The West must stand with Iranians against their abusive regime

  Death penalty expert Tahar Boumedra has in an op-ed for the International Business Times urged Western governments to support a United Nations probe into the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners in Iran. The following is the full text of the op-ed that appeared in the IBTimes:

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Call for justice over Iran’s 1988 massacre a key theme at Human Rights Council

The JVMI unveiled its new report on Iran’s 1988 massacre at the latest United Nations Human Rights Council session in Geneva. The 360 page report – Inquiry into the 1988 mass executions in Iran – was made public on 15 March 2017 at a press conference at the UN headquarters in Geneva.

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Tahar Boumedra: UN must prosecute perpetrators of #Iran’s #1988massacre

Tahar Boumedra, former chief of the Human Rights Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), told a Paris conference on Iran’s 1988 massacre that the UN ought to prosecute the perpetrators of that atrocity for crimes against humanity. Boumedra made the remarks at a conference on 26 November 2016 in Paris’ Mutualité …

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Tahar Boumedra, seeks international justice over Iran’s 1988 massacre

Tahar Boumedra, has called for the establishment of an international commission of inquiry into the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in 1988. Tahar Boumedra, former chief of UN Human Rights Office in Iraq, made the remarks in a panel at the United Nations in Geneva on the human rights situation in Iran and …

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