The history of establishment of the AIPP in Exile
Association of Iranian political prisoners (AIPP) was initially formed by a group of leftist political prisoners, who were released from the prisons of Royal Regime of Shah, little while after the revolution of 1979. like many other democratic organisations that were formed right after the revolution, its activities stopped following the Islamic Regime’s attack on opposition political parties and organisations in 1981.
After security considerations and a period of political debates and unorganized activities in secret, it was re-established in secret in March 1989 (Esfand 1367), sex mounts after the massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 (1367), by a group of leftist and communist political prisoners who were released from the prisons of the Islamic Regime.
AIPP engaged in a wide-range activity, including disclosure of mass executions of the early years of 1980s as well as the massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988, torture and mistreatment of political prisoners and their families, especially families of those who were executed in the early years of 1980s and during the massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988. AIPP published weekly paper of “Rahai” about the political prisons and destributed in secret. Collecting and registration of the names of those executed in the summer of 1988 and the early years of 1980s, helping families of political prisoners executed in 1980s to organise their events, were the other activities that AIPP carried out until it was attacked by the intelligence service (intelligence Ministry) and security forces almost a years after its re-established.
Intelligence agents together with security forces of IRI raid “Translation office of Tulua” (located in Enghelab Square in Tehran) where AIPP carried out its activities under its cover. A group of AIPP member who were there at the time, were arrested.
They raid the branch of “Translation office of Tulua” in Ferdowsi square, which is located almost two kilometers away from Enghelab Square, two weeks later. A small number of members of AIPP were arrested while couple of others succeeded to get away and leave the country in secret after being chased for a long period of time. They had no other way but to go into exile. After being settled in Europe, they established the branch of the organisation in Sweden in 1994, the “AIPP (in Exile). AIPP in Exile expanded gradually and its branches were established in several countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Pakistan, Turkey and USA as well as in couple cities in Sweden including Gothenburg and Orebro.
AIPP in exile is a democratic-political organisation and the scope of its activities is justice-seeking in all political and social fields, especially political prisons. AIPP in Exile is strongly against the criminalization of political and social activities, execution, death penalty, torture, inquisition, all kinds of injustice acts, oppression, sexual and psychological abuses, anti-human acts that would trample human dignity and all inhumane laws in Iran that are applied by the Islamic Regime.
AIPP in Exile stand with social and political movements that are looking for a revolutionary change in Iran, whose goals are to overthrow the Islamic Regime, to transfer the power to the masses of the people, to establish a fully popular and democratic system with equal rights for all, freedom of speech, organisation, gatherings, strike, and to establish social justice and welfare for all.
It is obvious that, the immediate demand of the people after the revolution is to prosecute those affiliated with the Islamic Regime from top to bottom, who have been involved in suppressing, harassing, mistreating, killing, executing, torturing and exploiting the people and causing them misery and poverty.
The AIPP in Exile is supporting and defending political prisoners, fighting for their release and political prisons to be shot down.
The AIPP in Exile believes that fighting against the oppression and brutality of the Islamic Regime, social, economic and gender inequalities, is related closely to the fight against the ruling system and the Islamic regime of Iran.