Maryam Rajavi: Iran Will Become A Garden Blessed With Freedom And Justice

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of NCRI hailed the 120,000 valiant children of Iran, including the political prisoners massacred in 1988, who were executed by the regime for fighting for freedom

Paris: Conference and Exhibition on the occasion of the World Day against the Death Penalty

On Wednesday, October 10, 2018, a conference and an exhibition were held in the District 5 Municipality of Paris, titled “Iran: Executions inside the country, and Exports of Terrorism abroad”.

 The event was organized by the French Mayors’ Committee for a Democratic Iran, and was participated by France’s mayors and personalities. The images and documents of the mullahs’ crimes were displayed, including the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, and the continuing wave of executions, as well as the history of the terrorist activities of the Iranian regime.

Florence , mayor of Paris’s district 5, Jean-François Legaret, mayor of district 1 of Paris, Jean Pierre Muller, mayor of Magny en Vexinh, and Mayor Bruno Macé, and a number of other French political and religious figures, as well as Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Chair of ISJ, and Former VP of European Parliament and Ingrid Betancourt, attended the conference and addressed it. 

CALL FOR AN INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY TO INVESTIGATE 1988 MASSACRE OF 30,000 POLITICAL PRISONERS IN IRAN

Human rights, in particular, bringing to justice the officials involved in the 1988 massacre, should be at the core of Iran policyHuman rights defenders, dignitaries, European politicians and the Iranian Resistance called for the formation of an international commission of inquiry into the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988 and bringing those responsible for this genocide and crime against humanity to justice.

They stressed that the issue of human rights should be at the core of the West’s policy on Iran. They urged the UN, EU and the US to put the issue of flagrant and systematic violation of human rights in Iran on top of their agenda.

The call was made during an exhibition on the 1988 massacre that took place upon the initiative of Mr. Jean-François Legaret, the Mayor of Paris municipality District 1 at this municipality on Thursday, August 17, 2017.

In addition to Mr. Legaret, several French mayors including Armand Jacquemin, mayor of Moussy Le Vieux, Jean-Claude Jegoudez, mayor of Grisy-Sur-Seine, and Jacky Duminy, mayor of Ors took part and spoke at the exhibition.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, in a message to the exhibition said 30,000 political prisoners were hanged in Iran in days such as these in the summer of 1988, without any reaction by Western governments.

Those who remained silent over this tragedy betrayed humanity because the mullahs found out that their crimes had no consequences. So, they continued by exporting their terrorism and fundamentalism abroad and drenching the Middle East in blood.

Paris Exhibition on the 1988 Massacre of political prisoners in Iran

I would like to go back to the appalling massacre of political prisoners that took place in 1988. The mass executions, in jails across Iran, were carried out on the basis of a fatwa

 BY STRUAN STEVENSON

Paris, 18 August 2017 -- The Paris District 1 exhibition and meeting on August 17, 2017, commemorated the anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners and censured continuation of mass executions in Iran.

In an address to this meeting at the Paris District 1 City Hall, Struan Stevenson, Former European lawmaker and President of the Friends of Free Irancalled for a full United Nations inquiry into the 1988 massacre, with Khamenei, Rouhani and their claque of killer clerics indicted for crimes against humanity and brought for trial before the international courts in The Hague, the following is full text of the speech:

   Jean François Legaret and Struan Stevenson 

Dear Friends, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I would like to thank Monsieur le maire, Jean François Legaret and the municipality of Paris Number 1 district for organizing this magnificent event in memory of the victims of the 1988 massacre in Iran. This is indeed an excellent contribution towards human rights in Iran and a big reminder to our European politicians that respect for human rights, women rights and democracy are European and universal values that must not be compromised and forgotten for economic interests.

That is perhaps the reason that the visit of Federica Mogherini - Europe’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, to Iran on August 5th stunned the world. She had gone to Tehran at the EU taxpayers’ expense, to celebrate the inauguration of President Hassan Rouhani as he began his second consecutive term in office. Rouhani has been hailed in the West as a moderate and a reformist, despite the fact that more than 3,000 people, including 80 women, have been executed during the four years he has been in office, catapulting Iran into pole position as the world’s number one state executioner per capita. Several hundred people have been executed so far this year, including women and teenagers. Three days before Mogherini arrived in Tehran, Amnesty international published a 94-page report highlighting the ‘web of oppression’ that pervades Iran and detailing the catastrophic human rights situation in the country.