Iran: Request from UN to prosecute Iran regime for 1988 massacre

  A number of families of the prisoners executed in 1988 massacre have sent a letter to Mr. Ahmad Shahid (Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran) asking him to get involved in regime’s horrific crime during 1989 massacre and prosecute Iranian regime for committing this crime.

Following is the text of their letter.

Honorable Mr. Ahmad Shahid,

So far, we have individually sent you a number of letters asking you in each one to intervene, to reveal  and ask the international community to prosecute those responsible in committing this horrific crime,the 1988 massacre.

It should be pointed out that this is not only our request but the request of all mothers, fathers and families of those executed all over Iran. As we previously told you, they may not have the possibility to write you a letter since a lot of them live in villages and remote areas of Iran.

We’d like to report a case to you which is related to one of regime’s notorious agents named “Mohammad Ali Kazemi Jorakani”. This murderer is one of those who got fired from the prison and was then employed by plainclothes suppression group who secretly commit inhumane acts against youth. He is currently serving the regime in Isfahan and has confessed that he has trapped and killed a member of People’s Mojahedin Organization(PMOI/MEK) on the road leading to the airport.

Mr. Shahid

Now that this hired agent confesses to his suppressive and inhumane act, it is not clear how many similar acts he has committed, only to be transferred from his workplace so as not to be seen by local people and keep killing the children of people in a new location.

As those responsible in the 1988 massacre, like “Pour Mohammadi” current minister of justice, who have confessed to their criminal acts and even committed additional horrific mass executions during this past month, they are going to keep suppressing and violating human rights even more freely if this massacre remains with impunity.

We, the families of those massacred in Khuzestan province, are grieving so much and our families are also being harassed by these executioners.

Once again, we are asking you to use all the mechanisms you have in hand to help put on trial all those responsible for committing this horrific crime in Iran’s prisons. They are still ruling disgracefully while the international community is silent. 

We’re hoping for that day to arrive

With respect

The families of massacred prisoners in Khuzestan province

September 8, 2016

The facts:

• More than 30,000 political prisoners were massacred in Iran in the summer of 1988.

• The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by Khomeini.

• The vast majority of the victims were activists of the opposition PMOI (MEK).

• A Death Committee approved all the death sentences.

• Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, a member of the Death Committee, is today Hassan Rouhani’s Justice Minister.

• The perpetrators of the 1988 massacre have never been brought to justice.

• On August 9, 2016, an audio tape was published for the first time of Khomeini’s former heir acknowledging that that massacre took place and had been ordered at the highest levels.