Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Geneva held an exhibition outside the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva on Thursday, March 17, calling on the international body to hold the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran accountable for the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners, consisting mostly of PMOI/MEK members and supporters.
March 17 – Geneva
Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the #Iran opposition PMOI/MEK holding an exhibition in memory of 30,000 political prisoners executed by the mullahs' regime during the summer of 1988.#1988MassacrePart 3https://t.co/HZfmXlpK6u
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 17, 2022
This gathering and exhibition coincided with the 49th annual session of the UN Human Rights Council discussing the human rights situation across the globe, including its yearly review of the human rights situation in Iran. In the session, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Iran, voiced grave concern over continued gross human rights violations in Iran and stressed the need for accountability for crimes committed by regime authorities.
Rehman warned that in 2021, the use of death penalty has increased in Iran, with at least 280 executions, including 10 women and two minors. Many of the executed people belonged to the Baluch and Kurdish minorities, Rehman said.
“The death sentence continued to be imposed for a wide range of acts, including against individuals who have participated in protests,” Rehman warned. Rehman called for the abolishment of the death penalty in Iran, especially the execution of child offenders.
Rehman also urged to Council to play an active role in establishing accountability for human rights abuses in Iran, especially the mass executions of political prisoners in 1988 and the killing of Iranian protesters in 2019.
“I’m encouraged that some states have used universal jurisdiction to initiate criminal prosecution against individuals who would otherwise not be held accountable for alleged human rights violations,” Rehman said, referring to growing efforts to prosecute regime officials in national criminal courts for their human rights violations.
In January, 470 current and former UN officials, international jurists, judges, and Nobel laureates wrote a letter to the UN HCR and called for an immediate investigation into the 1988 massacre. The letter especially highlights the role of regime president Ebrahim Raisi and judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei played in the crime against humanity.
More recently, Iranian regime authorities have executed 14 prisoners in several cities across the country.
At the UNHRC session on Thursday following Javaid Rehman’s report and remarks delivered by a number of representatives from a variety of countries condemning the regime’s human rights violations, the Iranian regime’s representative responded by lashing out at the PMOI/MEK.
“The fact that the human rights mechanism on Iran has no guarantee and lacks a legal jurisdiction is not fair or justifiable. Among the individuals who supported the mandate are delegates representing the U.S. regime and its apartheid allies, and the regime that is hosting the most terrorist group, being the PMOI/MEK,” he said, signaling the main source of the regime’s concerns regarding revelations of its human rights atrocities to the world.
Earlier this month, Kazem Gharib Abadi, the regime’s judiciary deputy for international affairs and secretary of the mullahs’ so-called “Human Rights Department,” met with Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, to voice his complaints about the PMOI/MEK, their actions and revelations that have proven to be costly for the mullahs’ regime.
Gharib Abadi’s main objective in Geneva has been to prevent, or at least confront, a circulating resolution aiming to condemn the regime’s human rights violations during the Human Rights Council, and the extension of Rehman’s mandate into ongoing human rights violations by the mullahs across Iran.
“The Special Rapporteur has become a channel to publish false information provided by terrorist groups. This terrorist group is currently freely going about and continuing their measures against the [mullahs’ regime] in the very capitals of those countries that are behind the resolution appointing a special rapporteur for Iran,” Gharib Abadi said in his recent remarks.
Gharib Abadi is deputy to Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, head of the regime’s so-called judiciary. Ejei has a background of violence, murder, and persecution against protesters and dissidents. Ejei has been blacklisted by the U.S. and European Union for his human rights violations. Ejei is also among the living members of the regime’s notorious Death Commissions involved in determining the fate of over tens of thousands of political prisoners in two-minute-long kangaroo trials during the summer 1988 massacre across Iran.
As a result, the likes of Gharib Abadi and Ejei, and many others like them in the mullahs’ regime, are the last people on earth to be complaining that their rights were violated. They are the culprit, not the victim.
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