Friday , 26 April 2024

IRAN: SHOCKING STATEMENTS BY SENIOR OFFICIAL HIGHLIGHT IMPUNITY FOR 1988 PRISON MASSACRES

Amnesty – Recent statements by Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, advisor to Iran’s head of the judiciary and a former minister of justice, defending the mass extrajudicial executions of 1988 provide shocking confirmation of the authorities’ wilful flouting of international human rights law both at the time and now and a stark reminder of the sense of impunity that senior officials linked to the killings enjoy, Amnesty International said today.

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