Reuters | By Stephanie Nebehay | Jan. 27, 2022 GENEVA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Prominent former U.N. judges and investigators have called on U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet to investigate the 1988 "massacre" of political prisoners in Iran,
Sir David Amess’ Last Article Calls for Reversing a Pattern of Appeasement by Arresting Iran’s Genocidal President On October 15, the world was shocked to hear about the assassination of Sir David Amess. Sir David was a staunch advocate of human rights. As a member of
‘I chose beatings over solitary confinement’ this is what it was like to be locked up in prison in Tehran Yahoo News | Mostafa Naderi | 10 September 2021 Last week, leaked surveillance footage showed shocking abuses of prisoners in Iran’s Evin prison. Watching the videos reminded me of my years
Nearly 3,000 miles from Tehran where mass executions were carried out in 1988, a murder trial in Sweden could produce new revelations that complicate life for Iran’s president-elect. New York Times | By Farnaz Fassihi | July 30, 2021 He was a 28-year-old student and member of a
Amnesty International | July 1, 2019 Iran: mass secret killings of political dissidents in 1988 Between late July and September 1988, the Iranian authorities forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed thousands of prisoners for their political opinions and dumped their bodies in unmarked individual and mass graves. Minimum
Amnesty International's written statement to the 40th session of the Human Rights Council (25 February – 22 March 2019) AI Index: MDE 13/9828/2019 - 11 February 2019 Amnesty International urges all states to renew and support the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights