UN Expert Backs Probe Of Raisi’s Role In Iran’s 1988 Killings Of Political Prisoners

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The UN investigator on human rights in Iran has called for an independent inquiry into allegations of state-ordered executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 and the role played by President-elect Ebrahim Raisi as Tehran deputy prosecutor.

Javaid Rehman, in an interview with Reuters on Monday, said that over the years his office has gathered testimonies and evidence. It was ready to share them if the United Nations Human Rights Council or other body sets up an impartial investigation.

He said he was concerned at reports that some “mass graves” are being destroyed as part of a continuing cover-up.

“I think it is time and it’s very important now that Mr. Raisi is the president (-elect) that we start investigating what happened in 1988 and the role of individuals,” Rehman said from London, where he teaches Islamic law and international law.

Raisi, 60, is on a blacklist of Iranian officials sanctioned by Washington for their complicity in the 1988 mass killings.

According to Amnesty International and other human rights organizations, between 4,500 and 5,000 men, women and children were killed starting in the summer of 1988 over a five-month period in prisons across Iran.

Read more at i24NEWS.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. It’s really something that someone who appears so calm and mild-mannered in the above photo is in reality such a a blood-drenched, unrepentant mass murderer.

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