"Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre" meeting in Geneva: Prevent the killing of detainees
The Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre organization held a meeting in Geneva on Thursday with the support of four non-governmental organizations, during which it called on the United Nations to investigate the mass killing of political prisoners in Iran in 1988 and prevent further killings of opponents of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This organization, headquartered in London, is an association of families of political prisoners who were killed by the Iranian regime in 1988 and buried in mass graves.
At a meeting of the "Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre" organization in Geneva, some eyewitnesses displayed photographs of their family members who were executed despite having prison sentences.
In this meeting, experts called on the international community to address the performance of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards those who dare to speak out against the regime.
One of the eyewitnesses to the 1967 massacre in Iran, pointing out the similarities between the 1967 massacre and the recent repressions, said at the meeting: "Do you think it's a coincidence that after the January 2018 demonstrations, we don't see the bodies of 10 of those protesters? The authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran say that they either committed suicide in prison or were drug addicts and lost their lives because of it... Or they publicly announced that one of those people regretted his participation in the demonstrations so much that he committed suicide in prison."
Among the speakers at the event was Ms. Christy Brimlow, Chair of the Human Rights Committee of England and Wales.
Ms. Bramlow warned that those still in prison were at risk.
The organizer of the meeting had invited a number of UN judges, senior officials, and human rights experts to review the evidence in the institution's possession.
Taher Boumedra, former advisor to the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq, was another speaker at the meeting.
Mr. Boumedra said: "If an investigation into the 1988 massacre and recent massacres is not conducted, civil society will have no choice but to do it itself, and we hope that our experts will today examine the evidence that shows what happened in the summer of 1988."
At the end of the meeting, all participants believed that the 1367 massacre was considered a crime against humanity.
Ms. Braimlow said evidence suggests that the number of victims is at least 30,000. A significant number of the political prisoners killed were members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq.
Source: Voice of America
