1st Feb 2022 - 465 individuals including Hundreds of Current And Former UN Officials And Globally Acclaimed Jurists including the former head of the International Criminal Court and more than 100 current and former United Nations officials, in letters to the UN Human Rights Council and High Commissioner for Human Rights said the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran is believed to amount to “crimes against humanity” and “genocide,” and they called for the establishment of an international inquiry that would bring its perpetrators to justice.
The letter was unveiled at a press conference in London on 27 January 2022 organised by Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI). “Human rights experts believe that the extrajudicial executions in 1988 in Iran amount to crimes against humanity and genocide,” the signatories said.
The signatories include a former President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a former President of the UN Human Rights Council, a former President of the UN Security Council, a former President of the European Commission, three former Presidents of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a former President of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities, a former President of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, a former NATO Commander, a former President of the Appeals Division of the ICC, a former President of the Council of the European Union, a former President of the European Commission of Human Rights, a former Chairman of the UN International Law Commission, 19 Nobel laureates, 106 current and former UN officials, including 37 former UN Special Rapporteurs.
The full letter can be read here.
The full list of signatories and their profiles can be viewed here.
