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Statement
Iran Tribunal Mourns the Death of Professor Kader Asmal
Iran Tribunal Campaign regrets with great sorrow to announce the death of Professor Kader Asmal, one of the founders of the Campaign who passed away in Cape Town, South Africa on Wednesday 22nd June 2011, following a heart attack. Cont. |
Press Release
John Cooper QC, the Chairman of the Steering Committee stated:
“The work of the Steering Committee in creating, advising and facilitating the establishment of the Iran Tribunal will be vital if due process is to be observed at the future hearings. We are determined that the Tribunal discovers the truth about what happened to thousands of Iranian people and that justice is finally done.”Cont... |
Iran Tribunal International Jurists Conference
The Conference discussed the establishment of the Legal Steering Committee, its format and tasks. The Committee will be composed of international jurists and activists and is charged with the task of organising the Tribunal, selecting judges, prosecutors and defence teams. Mr John Cooper QC was made Chairman of the Committee and a group of three was appointed to organise the Committee. Cont... |
Statement
Appeal to all freedom loving people of the world
For the first time in the contemporary history of Iran, an international campaign has been launched to investigate the mass executions of Iran’s political prisoners, and to hold the Islamic Republic of Iran accountable for its crimes against humanity during the1980s, and in particular, the summer of 1988.
This grassroots campaign has been initiated by the families of the victims, those who managed to survive the atrocities and many conscientious and freedom seeking political and human rights activists, in pursuit of justice. Cont... |
Press & Media Statement
Media coverage is imperative. We urge all conventional and the Internet broadcasting media institutions such as The BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky News CNN, GRITtv, Deep Dish TV, Democracy Now, etc. to engage with this campaign.
It is also essential that the news of this campaign is spread as widely as possible. This can be achieved by posting links from Campaign’s website at www.irantribunal.com on your websites, blogs, twitter, faceBook...Cont.. |
Statement
(Campaign to set up an International Tribunal to investigate the massacre of political prisoners in Iran)
In the summer of 1988, the Islamic Republic of Iran massacred thousands of political prisoners across the country. Men and women were blindfolded and taken out of their cells and were either shot by a firing squad or were hanged within the prison compounds and prayer rooms. Not a single one of the prisoners was given a proper trial. Instead, a group who later became known as the “Death Commission” decided the fate of the prisoners on the basis of their answers to a few questions. Cont,,, |
Amnesty International: Preserve the Khavaran grave site for investigation into mass killings
Amnesty International calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately stop the destruction of hundreds of individual and mass, unmarked graves in Khavaran, south Tehran, to ensure that the site is preserved and to initiate a forensic investigation at the site as part of a long-overdue thorough, independent and impartial investigation into mass executions which began in 1988, often referred to in Iran as the “prison massacres”. Cont... |
No peace for victims of Iranian revolution
The reports began to filter through in January this year. Reports of families finding their relatives’ graves bulldozed and obliterated, covered with mounds of earth and newly-planted trees. These vanished graves have apparently fallen victim to a plan designed to turn part of Kharavan cemetery in southern Tehran into a park.
Creating a park sounds like an innocent act, a way of improving the environment in a city which, until recently, was notorious for its polluted air. Cont... |
Khavaran mass graves under threat
Last month, the Iranian authorities began bulldozing the site of mass graves in the district of Khavaran in southeast Tehran, planning to turn it into a public park. They have already covered a large area with soil - having possibly removed bones - and planted rows of trees. In these unmarked graves lie thousands of political prisoners killed by the Islamic regime in the 1980s - most of them during a secret mass massacre in the summer of 1988. Cont..
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Destruction of mass graves
Between 9-16 January 2009, the Islamic regime of Iran destroyed by bulldozer, hundreds of of individual and mass, unmarked graves in Khavaran cemetery, south Tehran.The site was partially covered by soil and trees were planted. The Iranian authorities are aimed at destroying evidence of human rights violations and depriving the families of the victims of the 1980s killings of their right to truth, justice and reparation.
Background
Between August and September 1988, the Islamic regime carried out a massive wave of executions of political prisoners. There are no numbers of the exact amount of victims, as a result of harsh censorship and a harsh political climate in Iran. But, to this day, there are around 5,000 known names of victims. These prisoners had survived the mass executions of the early years of 1980s and were in the process of serving their long sentences. It is estimated that over 20000 political prisoners were killed in Iran between 1981 and 1988. |
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