{"id":17118,"date":"2020-08-24T23:29:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2021-02-08T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:42:41","slug":"remarks-by-henri-leclerc-call-for-justice-summit-july-18-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/annual-gathering\/grand-gathering-2020\/2020\/08\/remarks-by-henri-leclerc-call-for-justice-summit-july-18-2020\/17118\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Henri Leclerc\u2013Call for Justice Summit, July 19, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Henri Leclerc, French lawyer and Honorary President of the Human Rights League joined the Online Free Iran Global Summit<\/a>\u2014day 2. In his remarks, Mr. Leclerc said, \u201cIt is evident that when we look back on the massacres of 1988<\/a>, we know of all the executions that occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July 1988, the Iranian religious fascism\u2019s founder and the first supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a\u00a0fatwa<\/em>\u00a0ordering the execution of imprisoned opponents, including those who had already been tried and were serving their prison terms. This was the beginning of what turned out to be the biggest massacre of political prisoners since World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the decree, some 30,000 political prisoners were extra-judicially executed within several months. Today, thanks to the initiative of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>), known as \u201cCall for Justice<\/a>\u201d many legal and international bodies have joined the families of victims in search of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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