Post Tagged with: "political prisoners"
Amnesty International urges justice, reparations for 1988 Prison Massacre victims
6 December 2018- Amnesty International’s new report, “Blood-soaked secrets: Why Iran’s 1988 Prison Massacres are ongoing crimes against humanity,” explains how the many human rights violations perpetrated by the Islamic Republic’s […]
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Amnesty International: Iran must disclose the fates of Ahwazi Arab detainees
14 November 2018- A recent report by Amnesty International (AI) demands that Iranian authorities immediately disclose the fates and whereabouts of detained Ahwazi Arabs. An estimated 600 members of the […]
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UN Special Rapporteur to ensure the protection of human rights in the aftermath of the armed attack in Ahwaz
25 September 2018- Justice for Iran has sent a letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, to […]
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Jafar Behkish: Trying to pierce the Islamic Republic’s quiet impunity
Justice for Iran, 18 September 2018: What happens when a government ignores its citizens’ demands for truth and accountability for nearly forty years? While the Islamic Republic of Iran’s officials […]
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Human Rights Violator: Hossein-Ali Nayeri
Full Name: Hossein-Ali Nayeri Biography: Hossein-Ali Nayeri graduated from seminary and started his career in the Islamic Republic’s judiciary after the 1979 Revolution. Positions: President of the […]
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127 Rights groups call for immediate release of Nabeel Rajab after UN group calls his detention arbitrary and discriminatory
International Federation for Human Rights- Paris-Geneva-Manama, 29 August 2018 – For the second time since 2013, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued an Opinion […]
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A crime buried: demolition of the mass graves of the 1988 massacre by the Ahvaz Municipality
27 July, 2018: The Ahvaz Municipality has been destroying the mass graves of political prisoners killed during the 1988 massacre, in the past week. This is done with the pretence […]
Read moreDestruction and concealment of mass graves in Tabriz
There is a plot of land near the entrance to Vadieh Rahmat cemetery in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, that is suspected of being the site of a mass grave containing […]
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Alaraby: Iran destroys mass graves of 1988 prison massacre victims
alaraby: Iran is systematically destroying the sites of mass graves where the bodies of thousands of political prisoners executed in a 1988 wartime purge are buried, a new report by Amnesty International claims. […]
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The Media Express: Iranian officials eliminating evidence of massacre
The Media Express: The 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran has been referred to as a crime against humanity by various members of the international community. Members of the […]
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