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Starting on 19 July 1988 and continuing for approximately five months, a series of mass executions of political prisoners ordered by Ayatollah Khomeini...

the suppression of the 1991 uprisings in Iraq. Following Operation Mersad, Iranian officials ordered the mass execution of prisoners said to support the...

Khavaran cemetery by the Iranian authorities. Iran portal 1988 executions of Iranian prisoners Mothers of Khavaran StopExecutionsinIran Effat Moridi (Mother...

Republic of Iran Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners Khavaran cemetery Chain murders of Iran Mothers of Khavaran...

Iranian political prisoners were a series of state-sponsored executions of political prisoners across Iran, starting on 19 July 1988 and lasting for approximately...

espionage; and treason. Iran carried out at least 977 executions in 2015, at least 567 executions in 2016, and at least 507 executions in 2017. In 2018 there...

a result of its banning in Iran and mass arrests by the Islamic Republic in 1982, as well as the executions of political prisoners in 1988. Tudeh identified...

1998) was an Iranian conservative politician, prosecutor and warden. He was one of the officials responsible for the 1988 executions of Iranian political...

billion of frozen assets in South Korea to Qatar and signed the deal to finalize the prisoner exchange of five U.S. prisoners in Iran with five Iranian detainees...

torture, and executions to stifle political dissent. During Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's reign, estimates of the number of political prisoners executed vary...

of Justice from 2013 until 2017. Pourmohammadi is reportedly implicated in the 1988 execution of MEK prisoners. Pourmohammadi was born in Qom, Iran in...

figure in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, where according to different estimates between 2,800 to 30,000 Iranians were massacred. In...

during the 1988 summary mass executions of political prisoners in Iranian prisons. The organization comprises mothers and other family members of victims...

during the war. Iran portal Iraq portal 1986 Iquique arms factory explosion 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners Disabled Iranian veterans Iraq–United...

executions of political prisoners, in particular in Gohardasht and in Evin, took place during the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. Imprisoned student...

The Iranian Revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (انقلاب...

the trial sentencing and execution of thousands. In addition, he was involved in 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. "Tehran killers hanged...

political prisoners to execution during the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. The mass executions were largely thought to be a political purge...

involving the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners. Between 1994 and 2002, he was the most senior judiciary official in the provinces of Lorestan...

A botched execution is defined by political science professor Austin Sarat as: Botched executions occur when there is a breakdown in, or departure from...