Alfred de Zayas, former UN expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, on August 22, 2020 addressed a webinar on the 1988 massacre in Iran.
Survivors of Iran's 1988 massacre of political prisoners, international legal experts, and human rights and political dignitaries held a webinar on August 22, 2020 appealing to the United Nations and its Member States to carry out an independent investigation into the massacre.
Following a fatwa handed down by the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini in mid-July 1988, ‘Death Commissions’ were set up in prisons across Iran that sent thousands of political prisoners to their deaths.
More than 30,000 political prisoners, mostly affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), were secretly mass executed over several months after mock trials lasting just five minutes. Their corpses were doused with disinfectant, packed in refrigerated trucks, and buried at night in mass graves across the country.
