The Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) has prepared a video report of Professor Javaid Rehman ‘s conference on June 19, 2024. This conference, titled ‘Examining the Ongoing Crimes against Humanity by the Iranian Regime,’ was held with the presence of Javaid Rehman, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Iran. The Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) has released the text of this report on its website prior to this. Parts of this speech have been presented in the form of video recordings in this report.
- The First Part of Professor Javaid Rehman’s speech at a conference in Geneva on 19 June 2024.
So, all of these crimes I have analyzed in great depth when I’m looking at the 1988 massacre. And just to give you a brief summary of my analysis, the key elements of what happened in 1988 was that thousands of political prisoners were targeted and murdered. There was no fair trial for them.
- The Second Part of Professor Javaid Rehman’s speech at a conference in Geneva on 19 June 2024
There was this fatwa. Imam Khomeini issued that fatwa, in which he said that all of those monafiqeen (Mojahedin), as he termed it, all of those monafiqeen who remain steadfast must be executed. And he used this terminology through a religious prism, but he also urged the commissioners that he mentioned to show their revolutionary zeal, or religious zeal, to show no kind of consideration to principles of rule of law and human rights.
- The third Part of Professor Javaid Rehman speech at a conference in Geneva on 19 June 2024
So that was the basic agenda on which he ordered the executions. Now, you could not, by any stretch of imagination, call these commissions lawfully constituted. They were arbitrary. They were judging people not on the basis of any offenses that people may have committed.And it is interesting that the people who were prisoners, actually, many of them had not committed offenses of any sort. They were there because they were activists. Many of them were incarcerated for small activities, such as publishing pamphlets or distributing them, or simply not having been able conscientiously to repent for what they had done.
- The fourth Part of Professor Javaid Rehman speech at a conference in Geneva on 19 June 2024
These mass executions, arbitrary executions, were dispensed. And then what happened was that, obviously it was not a court of law, so they did not have any rights. They could not question the judgments of these commissions.
- The fifth Part of Professor Javaid Rehman speech at a conference in Geneva on 19 June 2024
They were executed at a very short notice. Many of them could not defend their case. They were asked questions that were not legal. They were asked, for example, would you betray the PMOI, or would you help support the execution of your prison mates? I mean, these were not legal questions.
