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| Deadly Fatwa: Iran´s 1988 prison Massacre |
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| Interview with Ayatullah Montazeri about the 1988 massacre |
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| How history will judge us. |
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During the summer of 1988, thousands of Iranian political prisoners were taken from their cells and executed. All over Iran, men and women were blindfolded and shot, or hanged in exercise yards or prayer halls. None of them was taken to trial, instead they were asked a few questions by what became known as the “Death Commission”, and sentenced to death according to their responses.(1) These prisoners had survived the mass executions of the early years of 1980s and were in the process of serving their long sentences. Cont... |
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Document-Iran:The 20th Anniversary of 1988 Prison Massacre |
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Twenty years after the then Iranian authorities began a wave of largely secret, summary and mass executions in September 1988, Amnesty International renews its call for those responsible for the “prison massacre” to be held accountable. There should be no impunity for such gross human rights violations, regardless of when they were committed. Cont.. |
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Twenty years of Silence: The 1988 Masscare and Quest for Accountability |
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Throughout the 1980’s, Iranian prisons were filled with political prisoners of every age, gender, and ideological affiliation. As has been noted by Amnesty International, the vast majority of these political prisoners had been sentenced to prison—in trials that fell far short of international standards—for non-violent political activity. While in prison, they had endured appalling torture and other forms of brutality. In late 1987 and early 1988, prison officials began the unusual process of interrogating political prisoners again and separating them according to their party affiliations, religiosity, and length of sentence. Cont.. |
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In one of those endless nights of the summer of 1988, besieged by a strange grief, an Iranian woman political inmate squeezed herself in between the narrow space of the metal shutters of the cell and stared at the mystifying sky. A gulping void was rapidly growing inside her, as if a monster was about to swallow her from within. Her heart seemed to know of the gravity of the loss of which she would only learn months later. Unlike the smooth gliding of the clouds, her hand hastily moved on the paper to accommodate the words which were forcing their way out. Cont.. |
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| The mass execution of the summer of 1988 struck like lightning |
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The mass execution of the summer of 1988 struck like lightning. It came down on Iran’s prisons like lightning and took thousands of political prisoners’ lives. The mass killings happened so fast on such an unimaginable scale that even after twenty years, it still brings shivers down the spine when remembered. Evin and Gohardasht prisons, where most political prisoners were held, became prisoners’ slaughter chambers. The mass executions followed a brief interrogation session in a two minute court hearing. The clock had turned back. The death squads in their medieval cloaks had once again appeared in prisons. Cont.. |
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| What Happened to Us in 1988? |
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Next morning, August 31, 1988, Naserian and several guards opened the doors to the wards, ordered all the prisoners to blindfold themselves, and exit the ward. After exiting the ward we realized that Melli Kesh prisoners were out of their ward and lined up in the hallway.The prisoners were taken one by one to a room adjacent to one of the wards. There Davood Lash'kari ( a prison manager) was sitting with several guards. He questioned the prisoners. Cont.. |
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| Report of Amnesty International on the Massacre of 1988 |
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In October and November 1988 the authorities began to inform families of the execution of their relatives. In a few cases prison officials informed relatives of the execution when they went to the prison for a normal family visit. This led to protests by prisoners' relatives who gathered outside prisons, so other methods were devised. The majority of relatives appear to have been informed by telephone that they should go to an Islamic Revolutionary Committee office to receive news about their imprisoned relatives. Cont.. |
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