{"id":19491,"date":"2022-02-09T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=19491"},"modified":"2022-02-09T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:14:00","slug":"exiled-iranians-in-vancouver-condemn-human-rights-violations-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2022\/02\/09\/exiled-iranians-in-vancouver-condemn-human-rights-violations-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Exiled Iranians in Vancouver condemn human rights violations in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) rallied in Vancouver, Canada, calling on the international community to take meaningful action against the Iranian regime\u2019s ongoing human rights violations.<\/p>\n

While daring the bitter winter cold, the exiled Iranians at this gathering held banners and voiced the following demands:<\/p>\n

\u2013 The Iranian regime must stand trial for crimes against humanity<\/p>\n

\u2013 Stop torture and executions in Iran, adding that Iran under the mullahs\u2019 regime has the highest number of executions per capita<\/p>\n

More than 33 years ago, in the summer of 1988 the regime ruling Iran launched a massive killing spree in prisons across the country. Political prisoners from a variety of backgrounds were the target of a horrific campaign resulting in the mass killings that targeted minors, seniors, and even pregnant women.<\/p>\n

Current regime President\u00a0Ebrahim Raisi<\/a>\u00a0was a member of the notorious \u201cDeath Commissions\u201d in Tehran in charge of holding minutes-long kangaroo \u201ctrials\u201d determining the fates of thousands of political prisoners, many of whom have already served their prison sentences and held behind bars specifically to be eventually executed. The Iranian regime Supreme Leader\u00a0Ali Khamenei<\/a>\u00a0must also be held accountable for his direct role in leading the regime\u2019s atrocities and horrific human rights dossier.<\/p>\n

The protesting Iranians in Vancouver, Stockholm, and other cities throughout the world are calling for the referral of the Iranian regime\u2019s appalling human rights dossier to the United Nations Security Council and thus to the International Criminal Court. Proper tribunals are necessary to hold Iranian regime officials accountable for their crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n

The 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners has been described as the worst crime against humanity since World War II.
\nA former Iranian Intelligence Ministry deputy recorded a video clip in 2008, in which he revealed that the mullahs\u2019 regime had massacred some 33,700 political prisoners and buried them in mass graves. According to Reza Malek, there are between 170 to 190 mass graves across the country.<\/p>\n

Raisi is best known for his direct role in\u00a0Iran\u2019s summer 1988 massacre<\/a>, being one of the main members of the mullahs\u2019 notorious \u201cDeath Commissions<\/a>\u201d responsible for determining the fates of each political prisoner during the massacre in kangaroo trials that lasted mere minutes. All political prisoner showing signs of loyalty to the PMOI\/MEK in any way were immediately sentenced to certain death.<\/p>\n

Raisi and other regime officials have committed\u00a0genocide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0crimes against humanity<\/a>\u00a0and should be held accountable in international tribunals. The world community should not provide these criminals any kind of legitimacy and instead, choose to stand alongside the Iranian people in their ongoing struggle to reach justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK) rallied in Vancouver, Canada, calling on the international community to take […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19493,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19491\/revisions\/19493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}