A 1988 MASSACRE AND THE TRUTH ABOUT ‘MODERATE’ ROUHANI Created: 28 September 2017
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By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani is making a tactical shift once again. This time he is appeasing the hard-liners publicly and revealing the actual agenda of his administration after achieving the Supreme Leader’s economic objectives.
Rouhani used the UN pedestal last week to shower praise on Tehran’s theocracy. His stale slogans smack of desperation and deception.
Isolated and generally regarded as a pariah, the regime and its familiar figures try to stick to the same plot and project an image of a powerful and rational player.
Brush aside the forced rhetoric and the ugly truth reveals itself: A regime that has hanged over 3,100 people under Rouhani alone, securing the world record for the highest number of executions. Dozens of young people are among the victims, securing another record; the world’s last remaining executioner of children.

BOB BLACKMAN MP: SECURING INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO THE 1988 MASSACRE WILL WIN OVER THE IRANIAN PEOPLE Created: 29 September 2017
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against executions in Iran.
Earlier in September, the UN Secretary General sent the latest report of the Special Rapporteur on Iran’s human rights to the General Assembly for discussion. The August 14 report provides a detailed account of a series of serious abuses that were carried out by the Iranian authorities in the past year.
But this year's report is unique compared with previous reports because the Special Rapporteur highlights the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in 1988. The report documents the direct involvement of senior Iranian officials and current ministers in carrying out and defending these mass executions as well as the authorities’ efforts to destroy evidence of mass graves and to harass, intimidate and prosecute those who seek truth and justice.

U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR TELLS IRAN REGIME: ABOLISH TORTURE AND RELEASE DETAINEES Created: 29 September 2017
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NCRI - Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, was interviewed by Al Arabiya’s studios in the United Nations about the current situation in the country.She said that in many areas in the country there are serious violations of human rights - from rule of law, denial of due process, discriminatory laws, people being discriminated against on religious and ethnic grounds and torture.
She said that she believes the Iranian government is beginning to look into these violations, however the steps being taken to address then are “very tiny”. The government knows that there are issues that need to be addressed, but she emphasised that it cannot continue to let them drag on because awareness is rising across the world.

IRAN: LATEST ON POLITICAL PRISONERS AFTER TEMPORARY CEASE OF HUNGER STRIKE Created: 29 September 2017
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NCRI - Despite forty days of hunger strike of political prisoners, they face a number of serious challenges, including the lack of adequate nutrition and the lack of solutions to health issues and medical care.For more than two months, the prisoners have not received any fruit, vegetable, or legumes. The prison food is not suitable. Prisoners inevitably have to purchase the food they need from the prison shop, but the prison officials do not allow them to have access to the prison shop.
Despite the fact that all costs are on the shoulder of the prisoners and they pay for food, they are not given any meat or dairy. The only recent change was that they were allowed to purchase canned food, which alone does not provide a complete diet for the prisoners, especially the elderly.

A 1988 MASSACRE AND THE TRUTH ABOUT ‘MODERATE’ ROUHANI Created: 28 September 2017
Iran
NCRI
Human rights
Political Prisoner

By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani is making a tactical shift once again. This time he is appeasing the hard-liners publicly and revealing the actual agenda of his administration after achieving the Supreme Leader’s economic objectives.
Rouhani used the UN pedestal last week to shower praise on Tehran’s theocracy. His stale slogans smack of desperation and deception.
Isolated and generally regarded as a pariah, the regime and its familiar figures try to stick to the same plot and project an image of a powerful and rational player.
Brush aside the forced rhetoric and the ugly truth reveals itself: A regime that has hanged over 3,100 people under Rouhani alone, securing the world record for the highest number of executions. Dozens of young people are among the victims, securing another record; the world’s last remaining executioner of children.
While the Islamic Republic attempts to portray having a democratic electoral system, Rouhani does not represent the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people. He represents the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the Revolutionary Guard Corps. His Cabinet consists of veteran intelligence and security officers with dark pasts. This includes his justice minister, Alireza Avai, who was involved in the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.

IRAN: DANGEROUS HEALTH CONDITIONS OF A POLITICAL PRISONER ON DRY HUNGER STRIKE Created: 27 September 2017
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NCRI - After a month of hunger strike, the political and conscious prisoner, Soheil Arabi on Saturday, September 23, 2017, started a dry hunger strike and announced that he will not stop till his wife is acquitted of all charges and is freed. He has also refused to go to the infirmary of Evin Prison.It is noteworthy that a short while ago in a letter to the Commander of ‘Tharallah Division’ of the Revolutionary Guards, Soheil Arabi held him responsible for his life.

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