Initiative to Support UN Investigation Into the 1988 Massacre in Iran Unveiled at JVMI Press Conference in London
On January 27, the Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) held a press conference in London to announce an initiative, put together by the global human rights community, in a bid to support an investigation by the United Nations into the 1988 massacre in Iran. The JVMI is a non-profit […]
Iranians, MEK Supporters Rally in Front of the Court of The Executioner Hamid Noury In Stockholm—January 24, 2022
Monday, January 24, 2022: The trial of the executioner Hamid Noury, one of the executioners of the massacre of political prisoners in Gohardasht prison in the 1988 massacre, continued in Stockholm court, in Sweden. At the same time, freedom-loving Iranians, supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and relatives of the martyrs protested […]
Geneva: Rally in Front of the European Headquarters of the UN by Iranians, MEK Supporters in Support of the Demands of Iranian Teachers—Dec 17, 2021
Friday, December 17, 2021—Geneva, Switzerland: Freedom-loving Iranians, supporters of the Iranian Resistance(MEK and NCRI) held a rally in support of the demands of Iranian teachers in front of the European Headquarters of the UN. They chanted: “imprisoned teacher should be released” and “We support the fighting teachers”. MEK supporters, also called for the trial of […]
Former Iranian Political Prisoner Gives Detailed Testimony at 50th Session of Hamid Noury’s Trial
The 50th session of the trial of former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury took place on Friday, December 10, at a court in Sweden. Noury was arrested in 2019 on a trip to the Scandinavian country and is being tried under the principle of universal jurisdiction for his active role in the Iranian regime’s crimes […]
European Parliament Conference : EU Should Recognize the 1988 Massacre in Iran as Genocide
On the eve of the International Human Rights Day on December 10, a group of prominent European lawmakers held a conference regarding Iran’s deteriorating human rights situation. Members of the European Parliament, called on the Union and its member states to recognize the “1988 massacre in Iran as genocide and a crime against humanity.” Mrs. […]
European Parliament Conference: 1988 Massacre, a Crime Against Humanity and Genocide, End impunity for Iran Regime Leaders
Brussels, Dec 7, 2021: On the eve of World Human Rights Day, more than 100 members of European Parliament, including 14 former ministers, including foreign ministers, call on EU and member states to recognize the 1988 massacre in Iran as genocide and a crime against humanity and to adopt a firm policy in the nuclear […]
Silence Continues in regards to the 1988 Massacre in Iran
Since Ebrahim Raisi was inaugurated at the Iranian regime’s latest president in August, much of the international community are remaining silent in regards to his long history of appalling human rights abuses, even though the Iranian Resistance have consistently brought attention to his involvement in the 1988 massacre in Iran Over 30,000 political prisoners were […]
Iranian Athletes Send a Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General in Regard to the 1988 Massacre
Over 100 Iranian athletes, from national and world champions to Olympians, have sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to draw his attention to the brutal massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988. In their letter, they greatly underlined how the Iranian regime targeted Iranian athletes […]
The 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: Eyewitness Accounts, Heydar Yousefli
My name is Heydar Yousefli, a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). I was arrested twice and was sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison. During the massacre of political prisoners, the situation was totally different, in my opinion, than the circumstances before the 1988 massacre. And the difference, in […]
Khavaran, the Symbol of Seeking Justice in Iran
According to Khomeini’s fatwa in the summer of 1988, more than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in Iranian prisons from late July to mid-autumn 1988 in Tehran and other cities and secretly buried in mass graves in often unknown locations. More than 90 percent of those executed were members and sympathizers of the People’s Mojahedin […]