The main violator of human rights in Iran and the notorious perpetrator of crimes against humanity becomes the new President of Iran
20-June-2021
Category: executions، Uncategorized
19-June-2021
Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Execution
Breathing in Confinement: Ebrahim Raisi, a member of “death delegate” in the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, was announced as the eighth president of the Islamic Republic. As usual, the officials of the Islamic Republic, after manipulating the votes and the statistics of the election, announced that Ebrahim Raisi was elected as the 8th president of the Islamic republic, winning over 17 million votes. Whereas highly reliable field reports indicate that the election was boycotted by an overwhelming majority of people.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Ebrahim Raisi who has been introduced as the new president, is one of the main perpetrators of the killing of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988. As a member of the “death delegate”, Raisi played a key role in the torture, execution and enforced disappearance of political prisoners in Iran.
In 2018, the Amnesty International in its report, documented the role of Ebrahim Raisi as Tehran’s prosecutor and member of the “death delegate,” in forced disappearance and killing of several thousands of political prisoners in Iran.
In addition, since Raisi’s appointment as the head of the judiciary in March 2019, he has had the main role in the illegal detentions of thousands of political, social, and human rights activists including the arrest of thousands of protesters in November 2019 nationwide uprisings, whose exact number and whereabouts are yet to be announced. Raisi has also played an important role in the killing of November 2019 protesters on the streets of Iran.
Therefore, granting the presidency to such a person with his horrible record of human rights violations and crime against humanity, including enforced disappearing, brutal torture, and the execution of thousands of political prisoners, requires the special attention from the international community, human rights organizations, and UN reporters. His presidency, reveals that the impunity of the Islamic Republic officials, gives them an open hand to continue committing their crimes.
“Ebrahim Raisi must be investigated for crimes against humanity,” said Amnesty International in a statement released on June 19, 2021.
In response to the presidency of Ebrahim Raisi, the Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said that: “Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being investigated for the crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance and torture, is a grim reminder that impunity reigns supreme in Iran.”
Amnesty International adds: “It is now more urgent than ever for member states of the UN Human Rights Council to take concrete steps to address the crisis of systematic impunity in Iran including by establishing an impartial mechanism to collect and analyse evidence of the most serious crimes under international law committed in Iran to facilitate fair and independent criminal proceedings.”
Ebrahim Raisi is known to the Iranian people as the “Ayatollah of Execution.” He is one of four people who were present in a meeting with Khomeini’s successor, Hossein Ali Montazeri in 1988, regarding the massacre of the political prisoners. In a released audiotape of that meeting, Raisi’s voice is being clearly heard that insists on the execution of the remaining 200 political prisoners who had been transferred to solitary confinement. In the same audiotape Montazeri’s voice is also heard that addressing the four members of the “death delegate” says: “Your name will be recorded in history as criminals.”
The Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, condemning the appointment of Ebrahim Raisi as the president of Islamic Republic, warns about the increase of pressures on the dissidents inside Iran, especially the political prisoners, and calls on the UN Human Rights Council as well as the Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights to form a fact-finding committee to investigate the killing of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988, and set an International trial against these perpetrators of the crime against humanity. The act which undoubtedly can help to save the lives of thousands of activists inside Iran.