{"id":247153,"date":"2021-09-18T03:35:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T08:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=247153"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:57:11","slug":"conference-in-stockholm-challenges-betrayal-of-human-rights-at-the-un-by-iran-regimes-president-raisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/conference-in-stockholm-challenges-betrayal-of-human-rights-at-the-un-by-iran-regimes-president-raisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference in Stockholm Challenges Betrayal of Human Rights at the UN by Iran Regime\u2019s President Raisi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Iranian regime\u2019s president, Ebrahim Raisi, is scheduled to address a virtual session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the Iranian diaspora will be holding a conference in Stockholm to draw attention once again to Raisi\u2019s history of human rights violations and to condemn the international community for legitimizing his rule by sending emissaries to his inauguration last month and by giving in a platform at the UN now.<\/p>\n

The Stockholm conference will feature eyewitness testimony from a number of former Iranian political prisoners who had dealings with Raisi while he served as a prosecutor and clerical judge. Many of those individuals witnessed the 1988 massacre<\/a> of political prisoners, putting them in close proximity to the proceedings that killed over 30,000 people and had them interred in secret mass graves throughout the country. Most of the victims were the members and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK).<\/p>\n

Raisi played a leading role in that massacre, as one of four officials serving on a \u201cdeath commission\u201d in Tehran. Obtained documents by the Iranian Resistance also indicate that he was personally tasked, along with one other judge, to expand his jurisdiction into several other cities and pass capital sentences for the purpose of removing a perceived \u201cweakness of the judiciary.\u201d He was essentially given that mandate again in 2019 when the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Raisi as judiciary chief in the midst of a historic surge in popular unrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When a nationwide uprising broke out in November 2019 featuring slogans that had been popularized during a previous uprising in January 2018, Raisi assumed a leading role in the crackdown, directing the judiciary\u2019s campaign of systematic torture following mass arrests. According to the MEK, at least 12,000 individuals were detained during and immediately after the uprising, and according to Amnesty International, the ensuing torture went on for several months.<\/p>\n

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Raisi, Butcher of 1988 Massacre in Iran<\/div><\/div>
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