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In the 1988 massacre, more than 30,000 political prisoners, most of them members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), were executed by the Iranian regime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seven United Nations human rights experts have written a letter to Iran\u2019s regime describing the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners as \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UN Special Rapporteurs who co-signed the letter are Luciano Hazan, Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances; Agnes Callamard, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; Clement Nyaletsossi Voule, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Fionnuala N\u00ed Aol\u00e1in, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism; Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and Fabian Salvioli, Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s regime carried out the massacre in the summer of 1988 based on a fatwa by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. More than 30,000 political prisoners were massacred. The vast majority of the victims were activists of the opposition People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq<\/a> (MEK<\/a>). Members of the Death Commissions, who at the time sent the prisoners to their death, include the regime\u2019s current Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi and Justice Minister Alireza Avaei.<\/p>\n

The letter by the Special Rapporteurs<\/a>, dated September 3, 2020, has only just been made public by the United Nations.<\/p>\n

It calls on the Iranian regime to prosecute the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre. It adds that if Tehran continues to refuse to uphold its obligations under international human rights law, the UN experts call on the international community to launch its own investigation into the massacre \u201cincluding through the establishment of an international investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UN experts wrote: \u201cBetween July and September 1988, the Iranian authorities forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed thousands of imprisoned political dissidents affiliated with political opposition groups in 32 cities in secret and discarded their bodies, mostly in unmarked mass graves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile it is believed that all of the individuals who disappeared during this period have been killed, individual information has not been provided to families about the fate and whereabouts of their relatives, the circumstances leading to their execution and the location of their remains. This continues to cause extreme anguish to the families of the victims, some of whom still disbelieve that their relatives are dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranian authorities have also excluded the names of the overwhelming majority of the victims from publicly available burial registers to conceal the location of the remains.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe families of those disappeared and believed killed face an ongoing ban on conducting commemorations or memorial events.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authorities have particularly attempted to suppress gatherings at Khavaran mass-grave site, which has gained a symbolic meaning in the families\u2019 efforts to obtain truth and justice. Actions taken include photographing and recording family members visiting the grave site, threatening, beating and arresting families at the site, threatening families not to visit the site, raiding homes of families who hold memorial ceremonies and closing off the main entrance and roads leading to the site.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe families, survivors and human rights defenders are also the subject of persistent threats, harassment, intimidation and attacks because of their attempts to seek information on the fate and whereabouts of the individuals and their demands for justice. Several human rights defenders are serving sentences for participating in commemorative gatherings and families have faced prosecution under vague national security-related charges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Impunity over Iran\u2019s 1988 massacre<\/h3>\n

\u201cThere is a systemic impunity enjoyed by those who ordered and carried out the extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances,\u201d the UN experts wrote.
\n\u201cTo date, no official in Iran has been brought to justice and many of the officials involved continue to hold positions of power including in key judicial, prosecutorial and government bodies responsible for ensuring the victims receive justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMedia outlets in Iran frequently publish distressing statements from high-level officials glorifying the executions and describing the perpetrators as \u201cnational heroes\u201d and call any public criticism or documentation of the killings as support for terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the source, the mass, secret extrajudicial killings in 1988 amounted to crimes against humanity of murder, extermination, persecution, torture and other inhumane acts, and the systematic concealment of the fate and whereabouts of the victims amounts to an ongoing crime against humanity of enforced disappearance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UN Special Rapporteurs said they are \u201cseriously concerned by the alleged continued refusal to disclose the fate and whereabouts of thousands of individuals who were reportedly forcibly disappeared and then extrajudicially executed in 1988. We are further alarmed by allegations of the authorities\u2019 refusal to provide families with accurate and complete death certificates, the destruction of mass graves, the ongoing threats and harassment of the families, the lack of investigation and prosecution for the killings, and the statements from the Government denying or trivializing the cases and equating criticizing the killings as support for terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe underline that an enforced disappearance continues until the fate and whereabouts of the individual concerned are established irrespective of the time passed, and that the family members have a right to truth which means the right to know about the progress and results of an investigation, the fate or the whereabouts of the disappeared persons, and the circumstances of the disappearances, and the identity of the perpetrator(s) (A\/HRC\/16\/48).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe note that as early as 1989, the UN Special Representative on Iran observed that \u201cthe information emanating from various sources… confirmed that politically motivated mass executions took place in the second quarter of 1988\u201d (A\/44\/620, para 110). We further note that in 2017, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, recognized that overwhelming evidence shows that thousands of persons were summarily killed and called for a \u201cthorough and independent investigation into these events\u201d (A\/72\/322). We are extremely concerned that no such investigation has been conducted to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

Time to prosecute the perpetrators of Iran\u2019s 1988 massacre<\/h3>\n

The UN experts\u2019 letter stated: \u201cWe call on your Excellency\u2019s Government to urgently conduct a thorough and independent investigation into all cases, to disclose detailed information on the fate of each individual and to prosecute perpetrators.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are concerned that the situation may amount to crimes against humanity. Should your Excellency\u2019s Government continue to refuse to uphold its obligations under international human rights law, we call on the international community to take action to investigate the cases including through the establishment of an international investigation,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n

The UN experts called on the regime to answer numerous questions:<\/h3>\n

\u201cPlease provide information on the steps taken to guarantee the right to truth in relation to the individuals allegedly executed in 1988, including the right to impartial, independent and effective investigation of alleged crimes, and the right to effective remedy for the victims of forcibly disappeared persons and\/or their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease provide information on the alleged refusal to provide families with accurate and complete death certificates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease provide information on the steps taken to identify grave sites, preserve alleged locations including from erosion, vandalism or looting, and to conduct exhumations in line with international standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Special Rapporteurs added: \u201cWe would appreciate receiving a response within 60 days. Passed this delay, this communication and any response received from your Excellency\u2019s Government will be made public via the communications reporting website. They will also subsequently be made available in the usual report to be presented to the Human Rights Council.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi<\/a>, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI<\/a>), had previously called<\/a> on the international community to refer the dossiers of the 1988 massacre and the massacre of protesters in November 2019<\/a> to the UN Security Council. \u201cIt is time to stop granting immunity to Khamenei and other regime leaders and officials. They must face justice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Rajavi had further called for<\/a> an international fact-finding mission to be set up to \u201cseek justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre, and hold the perpetrators of this grave crime against humanity accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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