{"id":220607,"date":"2020-06-17T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=220607"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T10:23:30","slug":"lawmakers-urge-switzerland-to-keep-open-file-on-assassination-of-prof-kazem-rajavi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/lawmakers-urge-switzerland-to-keep-open-file-on-assassination-of-prof-kazem-rajavi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Urge Switzerland to Keep Open File on Assassination of Prof. Kazem Rajavi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220611\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Australia-and-Italy-support\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australia-and-Italy-support.jpg\" alt=\"Lawmakers Urge Switzerland to Keep Open File on Assassination of Prof. Kazem Rajavi\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australia-and-Italy-support.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australia-and-Italy-support-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australia-and-Italy-support-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australia-and-Italy-support-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australia-and-Italy-support-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawmakers Urge Switzerland to Keep Open File on Assassination of Prof. Kazem Rajavi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Italian Committee of Parliamentarians for a Free Iran and Australian Supporters of Democracy in Iran, in two separate letters to the Swiss government, condemned Switzerland decision to close the assassination case of Prof. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/editorial-swiss-send-wrong-message-to-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kazem Rajavi<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Professor <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/editorial\/editorial-swiss-send-wrong-message-to-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kazem Rajavi<\/a>, Iran&#8217;s first ambassador to the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland after the 1979 revolution, Professor at the Geneva University for 10 years, renowned human rights activist and representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/our-resistance\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCRI<\/a>) in Switzerland, was gunned down by the Iranian regime&#8217;s mercenaries and assassins on April 24, 1990, in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss prosecutor announced last week that charges against 14 individuals involved in the assassination of Prof.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-the-decision-to-close-dr-kazem-rajavis-assassination-case-justifies-crime-against-humanity\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Kazem Rajavi<\/a> will exceed the statute of limitations on June 17, and later changed the date to July 31. As the Iranian Resistance previously said: \u201cFor the Iranian people, this was a clear example of justice slipping through their fingers, and a bitter reminder of the Iranian regime\u2019s impunity in matters of human rights and international relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss decision was met with international condemnation by renowned political figures on both sides of the Atlantic and human rights activists and organizations.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-300x100\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two letters below are the most recent positions in this regard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Letter by Australian Supporters of Democracy in Iran <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>June 14, 2020,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Eric Cottier,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral du canton de Vaud Place du Ch\u00e2teau 4<\/p>\n<p>1014 Lausanne Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>Urgent call to continue prosecution of suspects in assassination of Iranian resistance representative Prof Kazem Rajavi<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sir,<\/p>\n<p>Our association was formed in 2004 to support the democratic movement in Iran. We are writing to express our strongest protest at your recent announcement that the case against 14 of those accused of the assassination of Professor Kazem Rajavi will be closed on June 17, 2020, purportedly under a statute of limitations.<\/p>\n<p>On the contrary, the assassins of Professor Kazem Rajavi must be put on trial in Switzerland with all the vigour that your office can muster.<\/p>\n<p>On April 24, 1990, terrorists dispatched by Tehran assassinated Professor Rajavi, brother of Massoud Rajavi, the Leader of the Iranian Resistance and the Representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Switzerland as well as its representative in the European Headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. He was assassinated in the suburbs of Geneva. Prof. Rajavi was one of the most prominent human rights advocates of his time.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to close the file is an insult to justice and a violation of democratic and human rights values, prompted by a political expediency that will only encourage the religious fascism ruling Iran to carry out further assassinations with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>On March 20, 2006, the investigative Judge in the county of VAUD, ordered the arrest of then- Iranian Minister of Intelligence, Ali Fallahian, for his complicity in the assassination. According to documents and reports from the NCRI, in addition to Fallahian, Ali Khamenei, Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader, then-Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, and Hassan Rouhani, at the time Khamenei&#8217;s representative on the regime&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council and the council&#8217;s secretary, were involved in this assassination and those of many other dissidents abroad. Courts in Germany and Argentina have issued international arrest warrants for a number of them.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest warrant of Ali Fallahian reads: \u201c<em>The execution of Kazem Rajavi was carefully planned. Commando teams first came to Switzerland in October 1989, then in late January and early February 1990, and finally from April 10 to 24, 1990&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Investigations revealed that 13 people were involved in<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>the preparation and execution of the murder. The thirteen had Iranian service passports with \u2018on mission\u2019 mark engraved on them. Some of these documents were issued simultaneously in Tehran on the same day\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All Iranian service passports were issued only by order of the ministry under the<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>leadership of Ali Fallahian, and were confiscated at the same airport when the perpetrators returned to Iran. All of the service passports of the 13 people whose names were mentioned above were issued in Karim Khan, a street in Tehran. Two buildings on this street are the headquarters of a section of Iran&#8217;s intelligence service, Vavak.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terrorism and crimes against humanity are not subject to the statute of limitations, particularly in the case of a regime in which one ambassador and six diplomats have been expelled for participating in assassination attempts against dissidents in the past two years alone, and another diplomat has been in jail in Belgium for nearly two years for his criminal plot to bomb a large gathering of Iranians in Paris on June 30, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Economic deals and political considerations never justify concessions to terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>We therefore call on the President of the Swiss Confederation, the Foreign and Justice ministers as well as the Attorney General and the prosecutor of the county of Vaud and other Swiss officials to issue international arrest warrants for those who are known to have ordered and committed this crime, and, if necessary, to put them on trial in absentia so that justice is done.<\/p>\n<p>We call on all human rights advocates, parliamentarians, and civil society in Switzerland to call on the authorities to continue to pursue justice in this file.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution of criminals is the best way to deal with terrorism; closing this file facilitates and promotes more terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Dr Meredith Burgmann<\/p>\n<p>Committee Member<\/p>\n<p>Peter Murphy<\/p>\n<p>Co-Secretary<\/p>\n<p>Cc Michael Lauber, le Procureur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration en exercice; Karin Keller-Suter, Minister for Justice; Simonetta Sommaruga, President of Switzerland; Ignazio Cassis, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Switzerland; Frank Sch\u00fcrmann; UN Secretary-General; UN Special Rapporteur on Iran; Foreign Minister Senator Marise Payne; DFAT Desk; Senator Penny Wong; Adam Bandt MHR, Andrew Wilkie MHR; Julia Dean<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Australian-supporter-letter-page-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220608 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australian-supporter-letter-page-1.jpg\" alt=\"Australian-supporter-letter-page-1\" width=\"654\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australian-supporter-letter-page-1.jpg 654w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australian-supporter-letter-page-1-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australian-supporter-letter-page-1-327x420.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Australian-supporter-letter-page-2\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220609 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australian-supporter-letter-page-2.jpg\" alt=\"Australian-supporter-letter-page-2\" width=\"650\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australian-supporter-letter-page-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australian-supporter-letter-page-2-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Australian-supporter-letter-page-2-335x420.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Italian Committee of Parliamentarians for a Free Iran<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Comitato-Italiano\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220610 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano.jpg\" alt=\"Comitato-Italiano\" width=\"1732\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano.jpg 1732w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano-1024x236.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano-768x177.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano-1536x355.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano-696x161.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano-1392x321.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Comitato-Italiano-1068x247.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1732px) 100vw, 1732px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Appello<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>La protesta dei parlamentari italiani alla decisione della procura di Svizzera a chiudere il fascicolo dell\u2019assassinio del Prof. Kazem Rajavi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Roma <\/strong><strong>15<\/strong><strong> Giugno 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Siamo rimasti scioccati nell\u2019apprendere che la Procura della contea di Vaud in Svizzera ha deciso di chiudere presto il fascicolo relativo all\u2019assassinio del professor Kazem Rajavi. Terroristi inviati da Teheran assassinarono il professor Rajavi, fratello del leader della Resistenza iraniana Massoud Rajavi, rappresentante del Consiglio Nazionale della Resistenza dell\u2019Iran (CNRI) in Svizzera nonch\u00e9 suo rappresentante nel quartier generale europeo delle Nazioni Unite a Ginevra, alla periferia di Ginevra il 24 aprile 1990. Il professor Rajavi era uno dei pi\u00f9 importanti sostenitori dei diritti umani. La decisione di chiudere il fascicolo \u00e8 un insulto alla giustizia e una violazione dei valori democratici e dei diritti umani, in nome di un opportunismo politico che incoraggia il fascismo religioso al potere in Iran a compiere ulteriori omicidi impunemente.<\/p>\n<p>Il 20 marzo 2006 il giudice investigativo nella contea di Vaud ordin\u00f2 l\u2019arresto dell\u2019allora ministro dell\u2019Intelligence iraniano Ali Fallahian per la sua complicit\u00e0 nell\u2019assassinio. Secondo documenti e rapporti del CNRI, oltre a Fallahian, Ali Khamenei, il leader supremo del regime iraniano, l\u2019allora ministro degli Esteri Ali Akbar Velayati e Hassan Rouhani, all\u2019epoca rappresentante di Khamenei nel Consiglio Supremo di Sicurezza Nazionale del regime e Segretario del Consiglio stesso, furono coinvolti in questo omicidio e in quelli di molti dissidenti all\u2019estero. I tribunali di Germania e Argentina hanno emesso mandati di arresto internazionali per numerosi di tali casi.<\/p>\n<p>Il mandato di arresto di Ali Fallahian recita: \u201cL\u2019esecuzione di Kazem Rajavi fu pianificata con cura. Le squadre del commando arrivarono in Svizzera nell\u2019ottobre 1989, poi alla fine di gennaio e all\u2019inizio di febbraio del 1990 e infine dal 10 al 24 aprile 1990 [&#8230;]. Le indagini hanno rivelato che 13 persone furono coinvolte nella preparazione e nell\u2019esecuzione dell\u2019omicidio. I tredici avevano passaporti di servizio iraniani con il marchio \u201cin missione\u201d stampato. Alcuni di questi documenti erano stati rilasciati simultaneamente a Teheran nello stesso giorno [&#8230;]. I passaporti di servizio iraniani erano stati rilasciati solo per ordine del ministero sotto la guida di Ali Fallahian e furono confiscati nello stesso aeroporto quando gli esecutori tornarono in Iran. Tutti i passaporti di servizio delle 13 persone i cui nomi sono stati menzionati sopra erano stati rilasciati in Via Karim Khan a Teheran. Due edifici in questa strada sono il quartier generale di una sezione del servizio di intelligence iraniano, Vavak\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Il terrorismo e i crimini contro l\u2019umanit\u00e0 non sono soggetti a prescrizione, in particolare nel caso di un regime in cui un ambasciatore e sei diplomatici sono stati espulsi per aver partecipato a tentativi di omicidio contro dissidenti solo negli ultimi due anni, e un altro diplomatico \u00e8 stato in carcere in Belgio per quasi due anni per il suo complotto criminale per attaccare con esplosivi un grande raduno di iraniani a Parigi il 30 giugno 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Gli accordi economici e le considerazioni politiche non giustificano mai i cedimenti al terrorismo. Rivolgiamo pertanto un appello al Presidente della Confederazione Svizzera, ai ministri degli Affari Esteri e della Giustizia, nonch\u00e9 al Procuratore Generale e al Procuratore della contea di Vaud e alle altre autorit\u00e0 svizzere competenti affinch\u00e9 siano emessi mandati di arresto internazionali per coloro che sono noti come mandanti e autori materiali di questo crimine e, se necessario, essi siano processati in contumacia perch\u00e9 sia fatta giustizia.<\/p>\n<p>Rivolgiamo un appello a tutti i difensori dei diritti umani, ai parlamentari e alla societ\u00e0 civile in Svizzera affinch\u00e9 chiedano alle autorit\u00e0 di continuare a perseguire la giustizia su questo caso.<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019azione penale contro i criminali \u00e8 il modo migliore per affrontare il terrorismo; la chiusura di questo fascicolo facilita e promuove pi\u00f9 terrorismo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comitto Italiano Parlamentari per Iran Libero\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Firmatari: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lucio Malan<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Roberto Rampi<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mino Taricco<\/p>\n<p>On. Stefania Pezzopane<\/p>\n<p>On. Antonio Tasso<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former parlamentari:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Giorgio Bornacin<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Pietro Liuzzi<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Antonio Razzi<\/p>\n<p>On. Carlo Ciccioli<\/p>\n<p>On. Mariano Rabino<\/p>\n<p>On. Nicola Ciraci<\/p>\n<p>On. Eleonora Cimbro<\/p>\n<p>On. 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