The Islamic Republic, from the very first days of coming to power, resorted to executions, murders, and massacres. It began the bloodshed by executing a number of officials of the Shah’s regime on 16 Bahman 1957, and continued its crimes by kidnapping and murdering the leaders of the Turkmen of the Sahara, and by attacking Khuzestan and Kurdistan. It reopened the political prisons that had been closed by the masses during the revolution. In 1960, with the aim of destroying the latest achievements of the revolution, it attacked political organizations, arrested tens of thousands of their members and supporters, and by killing thousands of them, it started a bloodbath in Iranian prisons. The demand for justice during the Islamic Republic was born with the first bullets that this medieval regime fired into the hearts of its opponents, and its scope expanded throughout Iran with subsequent murders and massacres, especially in the early years of the sixties and the summer of 1967, in January 1997, in the summer of 1998, and in November 1999. Today, advocacy in Iran is linked to and inseparable from social movements, such as the people’s struggle against the Islamic Republic, the labor movement, the women’s movement, and the student movement.
Where repression and crime are rampant, where discrimination and inequality are devastating, where the right to life, freedom of expression, belief and thought are curtailed, where the livelihoods of the masses are encroached upon and rebellion engulfs society, advocacy becomes a broad and public society-wide scale and becomes a combat strategy for establishing justice. Justice in an authoritarian society like Iran can only be implemented if the oppressors, tyrants and murderers are punished for their actions and are removed from the throne of power.
At the 28th conference on the killing of political prisoners, guests of the program; Shahrzad Mojab will give a speech entitled “Revolutionary Justice: Theory and Practice in the Context of Very Unjust Relations” and Nasser Mohajer will give a speech entitled “On Advocacy and Its Relationship with Social Movements.”
Fariborz Fakhari and Hossein Gordin, the companions of the anniversary programs, will perform pieces with soprano and guitar during the program in memory and in honor of the victims of the 1960s and the decades that followed. Songs and hymns will also be played during the program.
The event will take place on Saturday, September 25, 2021, at 6:00 PM CET on the global Zoom network. The room will be open from 5:00 PM, one hour before the event.
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Live broadcast on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/cheguaaraa/live