Paying homage to Dr. Rajavi

Maryam Rajavi visits site where Dr. Kazem Rajavi, the great martyr to the cause of human rights, was assassinated

Geneva, Coppet, August 8, 2011

During her visit to Switzerland, Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, visited the place where Dr. Kazem Rajavi was murdered by Iranian regime’s agents in Coppet near Geneva, to pay homage to the great defender of human rights. She laid wreath at the location in memory of the esteemed martyr of the Iranian Resistance.

Dr. Rajavi, a law professor in Geneva and a renowned human rights activist during both the dictatorships of the Shah and the clerics in Iran, was gunned down on April 24, 1990 near Geneva, the European headquarters of the United Nations, by an assassination squad comprised of the Iranian regime’s terrorists-turned-diplomats. He was murdered because of his activities in exposing the inhumane crimes committed by the Iranian regime, which led to the first series of UN resolutions at the then-Human Rights Commission and General Assembly in condemnation of the clerical dictatorship in Iran.

As he often said, “We are writing the history of human rights in Iran with our blood,” and that is exactly what he did. His body has been laid to rest in Vadi as-Salam, in Karbala, Iraq, where other dissidents who made the ultimate sacrifice for the cause of freedom in Iran.