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Mr. Kenneth Lewis, a prominent lawyer who has been representing and defending members of the Iranian Resistance for more than two decades, was among the distinguished speakers at the international conference at the NCRI<\/a> headquarters on July 3.<\/p>\n Recalling the successful legal campaigns of delisting the Mujahedin-e-Khalq<\/a> organization, Mr. Lewis went on to emphasize the importance of the latest trial of a former Iranian official in the Stockholm District Court for crimes committed during the 1988 massacre. He laid down the facts and explained how the Iranian Resistance has done everything for this trial to succeed and expressed hope that it will pave the way to hold other Iranian regime\u2019s senior officials to account for their crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n The full text of Mr. Kenneth Lewis’ speech follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n Brothers and sisters, and people of the Resistance know what I mean when I say brothers and sisters, and I say also, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n Brothers and sisters are the people who are fighting this regime every day from morning to evening, and I’ve seen it. I’ve had the honor and privilege to represent the NCRI and the People’s Mujahedin in this trial. I might add, I’ve also been representing them and trying to help them as a lawyer since 2004 when I went down to Ashraf number one to get the Americans to release them. I was part of the team that got them off the European Union terror list, and now finally, finally, we have a historic trial in a Swedish court where one of the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre has been on trial, and the trial is still going on.<\/p>\n The last speaker spoke about the United Nations setting up a fact-finding commission. It’s not a bad idea. I can tell you that the investigation presented in the Stockholm District Court is the best fact-finding commission that you can imagine. In this trial, which in the district court went on for 92 days, the investigation is more than 11,000 pages, including the books which Madam Rajavi<\/a> showed pictures of and spoke of. The books were the names of the victims of the Mujahedin who were executed in 1988. These are part of the record of the Stockholm District Court.<\/p>\n The material created by the JVMI, it’s a wonderful material. It’s also included in the record of the Stockholm District Court. The books written by members of the Mujahedin in Ashraf are also in the record of this court where they point out not only this little fellow, Hamid Noury, but Raisi himself, Khamenei, who was the President of Iran at that time, and shares responsibility with Raisi, Nayeri, and all the rest of the names that you will see.<\/p>\n The JVMI said that they’ve identified 70 people. I’m sure we can find a list that’s much longer. You’ve already heard about Khomeini’s fatwa and what it meant. A fatwa normally should be a religious opinion. This was an order. There’s another word \u2019Hokm\u2019<\/em>, which we discussed in the district court. But okay, it doesn’t matter. A fatwa made<\/a> by the Supreme Leader becomes an order. It’s not just an opinion. And what does he say? Anyone who remains faithful to the people’s Mujahedin of Iran and who is in our prisons shall be executed. Quite simple.<\/p>\n And someone quoted also the memoirs of Montazeri, which we received much later, where he tells about the letter that was sent to Khomeini to ask, \u201cWhat do you mean? Should we have some kind of real procedure? What about people who have received a 15-year sentence? Are they suddenly going to be sentenced to death?\u201d<\/p>\n And he just said, \u201cKill them all, was the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n This is the information that we have had in the Stockholm district court. And this information is better than what any fact-finding commission is ever going to be able to find. Because we had also 34 plaintiffs who testified. The court moved to Duress in Albania to be able to listen to the absolutely decisive evidence testimony presented by members of the Mujahedin who had survived the massacre and who were living in Ashraf 3.<\/p>\n The 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: Eyewitness Accounts, Asghar Mehdizadeh-September 2021 — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
On this day I was witnessing new phenomena where all the #MEK<\/a> were standing tall and defending their ideals. Death was nothing to them, and they made a mockery of death#Iran<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rzuuz6CDgW<\/a><\/p>\n