Iranian Communities in Europe hold seminar in Paris- Maryam Rajavi urges international community to prosecute officials responsible for 1988 massacre and stop executions in Iran
The first day of the two-day seminar featured a number of international personalities including Edward Rendell, Chairman of the Democratic National Convention in July 2016 and former Governor of Pennsylvania; Bernard Kouchner, former Foreign Minister of France and founder of Doctors without Borders; Struan Stevenson, president of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA); and Dr. Tahar Boumedra, former UN Human Rights Chief in Iraq and in charge of the case of Ashraf at the UN; and Mehdi Same’e, chairman of the Industries Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and spokesman for the People’s Fedayee Guerrilla Organization of Iran, Kak Baba Sheikh Secretary-General of the Organization of Iranian Kurdistan Struggle (Khebat) and Mr Yasin Ahwazi from the Democratic Solidarity Party of Ahwaz who attended and spoke to the seminar.
Hundreds of representatives of Iranian communities, most of which are youths’ associations, converged from various European countries to launch the Iranian communities’ worldwide campaign to obtain justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre and end the executions in Iran. From among them, a number of relatives of the massacred prisoners and former political prisoners spoke about their bitter memories and experiences of this horrific catastrophe and clerical regime’s medieval prisons.
A moving photo exhibition of the massacred prisoners and information on the masterminds of this catastrophe was on display during the seminar and visited by the participants.
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