Marching film
Message of solidarity from Mother Hebe Bonafini, director of the Maya Mothers Association (Argentine Mothers) to the mothers of the East on the occasion of the great advocacy march in Stockholm.
Photos from the march
March advertising clip
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Audio and video clip advertising the 25th rally and march for justice
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Joint statement of the protest march and the 25th gathering on the killing of political prisoners
The 25th Conference on the Killing of Political Prisoners
And a large advocacy march in support of the mothers of the East
We remember and will not forget the bloody decade of the 1960s and that great human crime in the summer of 1967, which poured a river of blood from prison into society. What we wanted was not to kill our sons and daughters by the thousands and to cause grief to our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and children in city after city and house after house.
Although we should say that this secret hidden in the heart of history is that the revolution was not intended for a handful of oppressors and tyrants to take over the helm of society and drag the country into regression, and hand over thousands of men and women who watered the roots of the revolution to death squads and carry out the most heinous massacre in the history of Iran in prison. But these people had come for this very reason: to change the course of the revolution, to capture and kill it, and to destroy and destroy all the good things that the people did for that revolution.
Their intention in prison was not only to shed blood. Alongside the gallows and death squads, they established a destructive system to crush the prisoners they could not kill, to destroy their personalities, identities, and spirit of resistance and perseverance, and to dehumanize them.
At the 25th symposium on the killing of political prisoners, which will be held in Stockholm to coincide with the anniversary of the killing of political prisoners in the 1960s, five political prisoners from that bloody decade; Ahmad Mousavi, Mersedeh Ghandi, Reza Pourkarimi, Fatan Jokar, and Hamid Haghshenas, will discuss and examine the structure and destructive role of the Islamic Republic’s penitentiary system in prisons in a roundtable discussion, and will present an objective picture of the role of penitents in strengthening this system. Asad Seif will discuss the image of “penitents in the literature of prosecutors abroad,” and Reza Kazemzadeh will discuss and examine “Trauma, Memory, and Collective Identity.” Shirin Mehrbood will be the guest artist of the program, whose songs deal with love, struggle, and resistance.
In addition to this year’s gathering, which we will be holding at 5:30 PM on Saturday, September 15, 2018, in the year of the Husby Turf gatherings, we will also be holding a large march in Stockholm at noon on the same day (September 15, 2018) in support of the Khavaran Mothers’ lawsuit, carrying a thirty-seven-meter banner, on which are pictures of the victims of the 1960s, along with families, political prisoners of the 1960s, plaintiffs, and all free Iranians.
Iranian Political Prisoners Association (in exile)
July 9, 2018 equals July 18, 2018