{"id":323753,"date":"2024-09-03T08:41:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T07:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=323753"},"modified":"2024-09-04T17:59:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T16:59:54","slug":"tahar-boumedra-exposes-un-efforts-to-silence-him-on-human-rights-abuses-in-ashraf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/iran-1988-massacre-of-political-prisoners\/tahar-boumedra-exposes-un-efforts-to-silence-him-on-human-rights-abuses-in-ashraf\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahar Boumedra Exposes UN Efforts to Silence Him on Human Rights Abuses in Ashraf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tahar Boumedra, President of the Justice for Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI<\/a>) spoke passionately at the Iranian Resistance conference<\/a> about his experiences witnessing human rights abuses in Iraq, particularly against residents of Ashraf.<\/p>\n

Drawing on his time with the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Boumedra recounted his unrestricted access to Camp Ashraf and the harrowing abuses he witnessed there. He described his role as often being reduced to counting the bodies of victims, a grim duty that eventually led to his resignation from the UN in protest. Boumedra also detailed his defiance against attempts by the UN Legal Affairs Department to silence him, underscoring his commitment to speaking out against injustices.<\/p>\n

Boumedra praised Professor Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, for his courage<\/a> and impartiality in documenting human rights violations. He emphasized that Rehman\u2019s work is widely appreciated and assured him of global support from advocates of peace and justice.<\/p>\n

In closing, Boumedra reaffirmed his dedication to exposing human rights abuses and standing in solidarity with the Iranian people and the Iranian Resistance.<\/p>\n

The full text of Tahar Boumedra\u2019s speech follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thank you. Thank you very much, brothers and sisters in Ashraf 3. I salute you warmly. Let me say that I thank very much the speakers who took the floor before me, and I’m not going to repeat the legal issues that they addressed.<\/p>\n

I’m just going to share with you probably what I would call a testimony, reporting to you exactly my experience in a very short way because I hope that Professor Javaid Rehman will benefit from what I went through myself.<\/p>\n

As you know, the Unami mission in Iraq was established under Chapter 7. That means I was privileged to have access everywhere, and I had access to Ashraf 1, I would call it, without any limitations. At the time, civil society, lawyers, and doctors were prevented from entering the camp.<\/p>\n

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Tahar Boumedra, former chief of @UN<\/a> human rights mission in Iraq, JVMI co-founder: "The #MEK<\/a> had never lost a case before a court of law.
They were listed as terrorists by these political decisions and they were delisted by a court of law." pic.twitter.com\/G1oLxHASoa<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n