{"id":22827,"date":"2021-06-29T16:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=22827"},"modified":"2021-06-29T16:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:59:25","slug":"iran-ncri-womens-committee-raisi-must-be-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/1988-massacre\/2021\/06\/iran-ncri-womens-committee-raisi-must-be-prosecuted\/22827\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: NCRI Women\u2019s Committee: Raisi Must Be Prosecuted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Women\u2019s Committee<\/a> of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>) has used the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (June 26) to urge the international community to seek justice for Iranian torture and execution victims, as well as to bring new president Ebrahim Raisi<\/a> to justice for his role in various crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the United Nations-sponsored World Day, the Committee noted that Raisi<\/a>, who is known as the \u201chenchman of the 1988 massacre\u201d<\/a> of 30,000 political prisoners, has been involved in some of the worst repression, torture, and murders against women and young people over the past 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raisi was made a religious judge shortly after the 1979 revolution that saw the mullahs take power. In 1988<\/a>, at the behest of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini, Raisi became a Death Commission member<\/a> and tried thousands of political prisoners in Tehran during minute-long trials where the vast majority were sent to the gallows. But, the Committee noted, his crimes do not end there. Since his appointment to Judiciary Chief, he notably oversaw the crackdown on the November 2019 uprising<\/a>, where 1,500 protesters were slain<\/a> in the streets by security forces and at least 12,000 more were arrested and put under torture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, these are likely minimum numbers. Iranian academics in America and Britain estimate that the true figures could be as much as three times that when they compared death rates in November and the months before and after, which are 4,200 and 4,900 less than the November rates respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Committee wrote<\/a>: \u201cIranian society\u2019s collective conscience was severely scarred by the summer 1988 massacre and the vicious slaughter of protesters in November 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, it\u2019s important to look at the torture of female prisoners in Iran, even those who are pregnant, which includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n