Remarks by Tahar Boumedra at the conference in the House of Commons, Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, on the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran & International actions to request justice for the victims
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:
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.
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, 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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The committee “Justice for Victims of 1988 Massacre in Iran” (JVMI) officially launched at a press conference in the Geneva headquarters of the United Nations on 21 September 2016. The JVMI is a not for profit centre for research and documentation recently established in London which operates internationally. At the press conference announcing its formation, …
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