{"id":237664,"date":"2021-04-11T04:57:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T09:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237664"},"modified":"2023-01-27T02:42:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T01:42:36","slug":"the-west-must-challenge-the-impunity-iran-has-enjoyed-since-1988-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/the-west-must-challenge-the-impunity-iran-has-enjoyed-since-1988-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"The West Must Challenge the Impunity Iran has Enjoyed Since 1988 Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Families and survivors of the 1988 massacre hold an exhibition in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva on September 15, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amnesty International recently released its latest report<\/a>. The document calls attention to conditions in 149 countries, including violations of Human Rights in Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe authorities continued to commit crimes against humanity by systematically concealing the fate and whereabouts of several thousand political dissidents forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed in secret in 1988. Mass graves believed to contain their remains were subject to ongoing destruction.\u201d The report reads in part about Iran and the massacre of political prisoners in 1988<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 1988, the Iranian regime systematically executed over 30,000 political prisoners, many of whom have already served out their sentences. The massacre was part of an effort to stamp out organized dissent. Prisons throughout the country convened what came to be known as \u201cdeath commissions,\u201d and these tribunals began interrogating inmates over the political views and affiliations, mainly targeting known or suspected supporters of the leading pro-democracy opposition group the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>). Those who failed to demonstrate loyalty to the supreme leader and the regime\u2019s fundamentalist interpretation of Islam were summarily hanged, often in groups, and buried in secret mass graves.<\/p>\n

To date, no one has ever been held accountable for those killings. Worse still, many of the surviving perpetrators of the massacre remain in positions of tremendous power and influence, including that of Chief Justice for the Iranian judiciary. Since assuming that role in 2019, Ebrahim Raisi has overseen what appear to be escalating crackdowns on dissent, driven in part by the regime\u2019s anxiety over recent domestic unrest.<\/p>\n

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UN experts call for investigation of 1988 Massacre in Iran - December 2020<\/div><\/div>
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