1988 massacre

In the lead-up to the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on 30 August, Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the United Nations ...

After 31 years, Iran’s 1988 massacre that sent over 30,000 political prisoners to the gallows over a few months based on a fatwa by Khomeini, ...

Amnesty International released a new statement last month about one of the worst crimes against humanity in recent decades that still remains unresolved: Iran’s 1988 ...

Amnesty International has released a statement condemning the recent comments by a senior Iranian official defending the 1988 prison massacres and pointing out that the ...

A second Iranian regime official has admitted to the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran

Recent statements by Mostafa Pourmohammadi, advisor to Iran's head of the judiciary, defending the mass extrajudicial executions of 1988 is a stark reminder of the ...

Amnesty International condemned recent statements by Mostafa Pourmohammadi, adviser to Iran’s head of the judiciary, defending the mass executions of over 30,000 political prisoners during ...

Iranian political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared has written an open letter on the 1988 anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, criticising the ...

Mostafa Pourmohammadi, former judiciary minister in the cabinet of Hassan Rouhani, President of the mullahs’ regime in Iran, blatantly defended the mass execution of political ...

Feeling threatened by the dissent against his absolute rule, less than 10 years into the Islamic revolution, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...