{"id":264194,"date":"2022-09-22T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=264194"},"modified":"2023-02-06T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T22:37:04","slug":"iran-protests-2022-iranian-people-hold-the-regime-accountable-how-intl-community-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-protests\/iran-protests-2022-iranian-people-hold-the-regime-accountable-how-intl-community-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Protests 2022: Iranian People Hold the Regime Accountable; How Int\u2019l Community Respond?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graffiti on the wall says “Death to Khamenei”, a street in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi, Northeastern Iran- September 22, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As protests over the brutal murder of a young woman at the hands of Iran\u2019s morality police continued for a sixth consecutive day on Wednesday, the accompanying global criticism cast a shadow over the regime\u2019s president, Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s visit<\/a> to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the United States, the Organization of Iranian-American Communities held a rally in a park across from the UN Headquarters. On Tuesday, the OIAC displayed photographs of approximately 2,000 victims of Iran\u2019s 1988 massacre of political prisoners, in which Raisi played a leading role as a member of the Tehran \u201cdeath commission\u201d. Nationwide, that massacre is believed to have claimed 30,000 lives.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Iranian opposition held a larger rally in Dag Hammarskjold Park on Wednesday, with thousands of participants demanding Raisi\u2019s prosecution for crimes against humanity. In advance of Raisi\u2019s arrival, 16 Iranian expatriates filed a civil lawsuit in the Southern District of New York in an effort to facilitate legal accountability and highlight evidence that might later be used in a criminal trial.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To date, no one has ever been held accountable for the 1988 massacre, with the sole exception of Hamid Noury<\/a>, a former Iranian prison official and comparatively low-level participant in the death commission\u2019s process. Noury was arrested by Swedish authorities in 2019, based on the principle of \u201cuniversal jurisdiction\u201d over outstanding violations of international law. He was sentenced earlier this year to life in prison.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Raisi\u2019s selection by the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was widely recognized as a renewed endorsement of the principles behind the 1988 massacre, and thus as an implicit directive for expanded political repression in the wake of several recent, nationwide uprisings against the theocratic system.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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September 22 – Tehran, #Iran<\/a>
Valiasr Street
Locals continue the nationwide protests against the regime on the 7th day of the uprising.
They're chanting:
"Death to the dictator!"
"I will kill those who killed my sister!"#IranProtests<\/a> #MahsaAmini<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/C8tWQTR6go<\/a><\/p>\n

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) September 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n