{"id":18165,"date":"2020-09-25T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=18165"},"modified":"2020-09-25T11:16:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:16:35","slug":"human-rights-ngos-call-to-end-impunity-to-mullahs-bring-to-justice-perpetrators-of-1988-massacre-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2020\/09\/human-rights-ngos-call-to-end-impunity-to-mullahs-bring-to-justice-perpetrators-of-1988-massacre-in-iran\/18165\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights NGOs Call To End Impunity To Mullahs; Bring To Justice Perpetrators of 1988 Massacre in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the current session of the UN Human Rights Council, which will continue until October 7, 2020, the UN Office in Geneva has circulated a joint written statement submitted by 21 international Non-Governmental Organizations demanding bring to justice the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre<\/a> in Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts from this statement are as follows:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We appeal to the United Nations (UN) and its Member States to investigate the\u00a01988 massacre<\/a>\u00a0of political prisoners in the Islamic Republic of Iran and to hold the perpetrators of that \u2018ongoing crime against humanity\u2019 accountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1988 Massacre<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Following a fatwa handed down by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini in mid-July 1988, more than 30,000 political prisoners, primarily affiliated with the\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK)<\/a>, were secretly mass executed over several months after mock trials lasting just five minutes. Their corpses were doused with disinfectant, packed in refrigerated trucks, and buried at night in mass graves across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call for accountability and justice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

United States of America (U.S.) State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus on 17 July 2020 called on1 the international community to conduct independent investigations into the 1988 massacre and to provide accountability and justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of upholding justice, the Iranian judiciary oppresses and violates human rights. We\u202furge the international community and individual governments\u202fto provide accountability and pursue justice for the regime's many victims. pic.twitter.com\/Mr0HpJuJ5g<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Matthew Miller (@StateDeptSpox) July 17, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>