{"id":17256,"date":"2020-09-01T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T07:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=17256"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:26:14","slug":"remarks-by-els-van-hoof-call-for-justice-summit-july-19-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/activities-outside-iran\/annual-gathering\/grand-gathering-2020\/2020\/09\/remarks-by-els-van-hoof-call-for-justice-summit-july-19-2020\/17256\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks by Els Van Hoof\u2013Call for Justice Summit, July 19, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Els Van Hoof Member of Federal Parliament of Belgium joined the Online\u00a0Free Iran Global Summit<\/a>\u2014day 2. In her remarks, Ms Van Hoof said, \u201cJustice is something you\u2019re all striving for in your work. As some of you may know, it\u2019s also something I strive for in my Parliamentary work.\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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