Paris Remembers Iran's 1988 Massacre, Urges UN Action to Stop the "Ongoing Crime Against Humanity"
Paris Remembers Iran's 1988 Massacre, Urges UN Action to Stop the "Ongoing Crime Against Humanity" Written by Sedighe Shahrokhi on 01 September 2019 . An event commemorating Iran's 1988 massacre of political prisoners was held on Friday in Paris District 1's City Hall. The conference, titled, “Iran: Massacred Human Rights: 31st anniversary of massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988,” brought together French lawmakers, mayors and human rights activists who appealed to the French government and the United Nations to hold Iranian officials accountable for their "ongoing crime against humanity." Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi sent a message to the conference, saying: "The time has come for the international community to end three decades of impunity for the clerical regime’s leaders in accounting for their crimes." "The dossier of human rights violations in Iran, particularly the massacre in 1988, must be ref...