Iran Tribunal
The Iran Tribunal is a social movement investigating human rights violations in Iran in the 1980s. The tribunal is not a formal international court . It is based on the Russell Tribunal against the Vietnam War .
background
During the Islamic Revolution there was initially a broad alliance of all opponents of the Shah, from Islamic clergy to the communist Tudeh party . After the establishment of the Islamic Republic, the Khomeini regime proceeded, particularly from 1980 to 1982, with ruthless severity against anyone who it considered to be a threat to it. There were mass arrests and executions. In 1982 alone, between 5,000 and 10,000 people were executed. Up to 40,000 political prisoners were held in the prisons. There was physical and mental torture in the prisons. In 1988 Khomeini issued a secret fatwa, as a result of which several thousands of Iranian citizens were executed without judgment . There has been no official investigation into the crimes to date.
preparation
The tribunal was founded in 2007 by relatives of victims, former political prisoners and human rights activists with the support of lawyers. While the Russell Tribunal was initiated by prominent writers, philosophers and political activists, the Iran Tribunal sees itself as the first popular tribunal to investigate state-ordered acts of violence. From 18. to 22. In June 2012, a truth commission set up by the Tribunal took the testimony of around 75 witnesses, most of them former prisoners from the 1980s.
tribunal
The actual tribunal met from 25-27. October 2012 in the Peace Palace in The Hague under the chairmanship of the former South African constitutional judge Johann Kriegler . It came to the judgment that the Islamic Republic of Iran
- from 1980-1989 committed crimes against humanity against its citizens in violation of international law
- is fully responsible for the serious violations of human rights in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights have been agreed
- Is held responsible by international law for the systematic and extensive perpetration of crimes against humanity in Iran.
Movie
- Khomeini's secret fatwa - The Iran Tribunal, ZDF 2014
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Program information on the documentary Iran Tribunal on arte.tv, accessed on May 20, 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Self-image of the Tribunal at www.irantribunal.com, accessed on May 20, 2015
- ↑ Wording of the judgment at www.irantribunal.com, accessed on May 20, 2015 (PDF)
