{"id":77683,"date":"2025-08-22T05:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=77683"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:01:00","slug":"irans-regime-confirms-destruction-of-political-prisoners-graves-at-behesht-e-zahras-section-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/human-rights\/2025\/08\/irans-regime-confirms-destruction-of-political-prisoners-graves-at-behesht-e-zahras-section-41\/77683\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Regime Confirms Destruction of Political Prisoners\u2019 Graves at Behesht-e Zahra\u2019s Section 41"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Iran\u2019s — Iran\u2019s regime is erasing traces of the 1980s executions by bulldozing Section 41 of Behesht-e Zahra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
This report, originally published on the *1988 Massacre<\/em> website<\/a>, details a disturbing development regarding the destruction of graves belonging to executed political prisoners in Iran.<\/p>\n*
On 11 August 2025, Iranian authorities sent bulldozers and security forces to Section 41 of Tehran\u2019s Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery\u2014one of the most significant burial grounds for thousands of dissidents executed during the 1980s. On 19 August, Tehran\u2019s Deputy Mayor Davoud Goudarzi publicly confirmed that the area had been converted into a car park. He explained that Section 41, where members of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (*PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) were buried in the early years following the revolution, was \u201cabandoned,\u201d and permission was granted to level the site and repurpose it for parking.<\/p>\n*
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\ud83d\udea8 Tehran\u2019s Deputy Mayor Davoud Goudarzi confirmed today that authorities have converted part of Iran\u2019s largest cemetery\u2014where thousands of executed political prisoners were buried\u2014into a car park.<\/p>\n
The regime seeks to erase evidence of its atrocity crimes.<\/p>\n
CC: @drmaisato<\/a> @WGEID<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/jEJHi7Q7hm<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 M. Hanif Jazayeri (@HanifJazayeri) August 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n