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Trial after trial against the criminal regime in Iran.
EBRAHIM RAISI: - Now is the time for an international investigation and legal proceedings of the President of Iran, write Beroz Omid and Milica Javdan. Photo: Majid Asgaripou / Wana News Agency
Millions of Iranians have demonstrated in recent years, with their lives at stake, demanding democratic change.
Beroz Omid and Milica Javdan, the association of Iranian academics
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There are many lawsuits against the Iranian regime. Among other things, regarding the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, which took place in the summer of 1988.
Now is the time for an international inquiry and legal proceedings by the country's president.
Struck down on those who say no
The Iranian regime has been looting its people for over 40 years, and has cracked down on anyone brave enough to protest. Therefore, large parts of the population live below the poverty line in the oil-rich country.
The UN and Amnesty have condemned the regime dozens of times for gross violations of human rights and systematic discrimination against women. The regime is also deeply involved in terrorism and has ambitions to become a nuclear power.
In addition to human rights organizations, many courts around the world have sued the clergy. In 2021 alone, the regime has had to answer for itself in four lawsuits held by courts in the democratic part of the world.
Have had to answer for themselves
In February this year, a court in Belgium sentenced a senior diplomat from Iran for orchestrating a failed bombing of the democratic resistance movement NCRI's annual meeting in Paris in 2018. France believes that the regime's official intelligence ministry was behind it.
On May 20 this year, a court in Canada ruled that the shooting down of the Ukrainian passenger plane in January 2020 in Tehran was a proven terrorist attack carried out by the Revolutionary Guards. 176 people lost their lives.
In September this year, a Swiss court decided to reopen a case against agents of the Iranian regime who killed Professor Kazem Rajavi in 1990. He was NCRI's representative in Switzerland.
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The most important trial this year, however, takes place in Stockholm, in the trial against Hamid Nouri. Nouri is a professional torturer who for many years was associated with a political prison outside Tehran. Witnesses describe the brutality young women and men were subjected to in connection with the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.
90 percent of the victims were affiliated with NCRI. It has emerged that the regime's current president, Raisi, played a key role in the massacre. Amnesty International describes the massacres as a crime against humanity. Raisi was, among other things, a member of the death committee that sentenced the prisoners to death. He is blacklisted in both the EU and the US.
Support the democratic resistance movement
Millions of Iranians have demonstrated in recent years, with their lives at stake, demanding democratic change. The regime has crushed the demonstrations with unparalleled brutality.
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Norway can contribute to the Iranian people's struggle for freedom by supporting the democratic resistance movement. In the first instance, Norway should press for an international investigation and judicial review of massacres in 1988. This is a demand expressed by both the UN and Amnesty.
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