{"id":26862,"date":"2021-10-05T07:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T05:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=26862"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T06:08:23","slug":"former-political-prisoner-recalls-his-experience-during-the-1988-massacre-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/10\/former-political-prisoner-recalls-his-experience-during-the-1988-massacre-in-iran\/26862\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Political Prisoner Recalls His Experience During the 1988 Massacre in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Asghar Mehdizadeh was a political prisoner and spent 13 years in Iran\u2019s prisons. Mr. Mehdizadeh is one of the witnesses of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran.<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From the beginning of 1982, Asghar Mehdizadeh was imprisoned as a political prisoner in Iran, where he bore witness to the brutal tortures and executions at the hands of the Iranian regime. He recalled in great detail of the events of the summer of 1988<\/a>, where 30,000 political prisoners were sentenced to be executed in minute long trials for being allied with the Iranian Resistance movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mehdizadeh was imprisoned for 13 years at Gohardasht prison, during which time he was subjected to brutal torture and mistreatment for being a member of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 1988<\/a>, then-Supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, declaring MEK <\/a>supporters as \u2018enemies of God\u2019 and ordering them to be executed. Panels of clerics and judiciary officials, known as \u2018Death commissions\u2019, were set up to implement this fatwa across Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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