A program to remember and commemorate the victims of the sixties and four decades of repression in Iran
From the very first days of taking power, the Islamic Republic set in motion the machine of repression and violence in society by executing a number of officials of the royal regime. By attacking Kurdistan, the Turkmen Desert, and Khuzestan in 1979 and 1980, it accelerated repression and crime in society, and in a nationwide and organized campaign, between 1981 and 1985, it arrested, tortured, and executed tens of thousands of activists, political and ideological opponents, and oppressed nationalities of Iran, including Kurds, Arabs, and Baluchis.
The number of people executed in the early 1960s is still shrouded in mystery. However, nearly twelve thousand executions have been recorded so far. However, it is estimated that the number of political executions in these years exceeds 20,000.
The process of executing and killing political prisoners in the 1960s reached its peak with the fatwa issued by Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Republic, in August and September 1968, following which more than four thousand political prisoners who were serving their prison terms, and some whose prison terms had ended but were still in prison, were collectively executed.
Executions and killings in society were not limited to the 1960s. In the past forty-one years, the Islamic Republic has taken many lives and shed much blood on the pavements of the streets. In November 1998, in fear of a nationwide uprising that would destroy its foundation, it murdered more than fifteen hundred people and arrested and tortured thousands. The existence of the Islamic Republic is tied to crime, and as long as it is in power, it will suppress, execute, and kill.
The Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in Exile), in protest of the repression, executions, and killings in Iran, and in memory and commemoration of thousands of freedom fighters who were murdered by the Islamic Republic regime in the 1960s and the years before and after, especially in January 1996 and November 1998, will hold a special program using Zoom software, in audio and video format, on Saturday, September 19, 2020. The program will be held at 5:30 p.m. Central European Time. In this program, six male and female political prisoners of the 1960s; Mohammad Khoshzog, Marsedeh Ghaedi, Ahmad Mousavi, Fatan Jokar, Hamid Haghshenas, and Tahmineh Gashtasbi, will portray life in the prisons of the Islamic Republic.
Other guests on the program will be the singer and composer of the younger generation, Majid Kazemi, saxophonist Fariborz Fakhari, and guitarist Hossein Gordin.
The program will be held via the Zoom application. To attend the program, click on the link below:
Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile)
August 11, 2020 equals August 1, 2020