MARYAM RAJAVI CALLS FOR FORMATION OF A MOVEMENT TO OBTAIN JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF 1988 MASSACRE

Maryam Rajavi calls for justice for victims of 1988 massacre in Iran

Their voices can be heard in the endless questions of students and youths who challenge the mullahs' murderous government over the 1988 massacre.
They can be heard in the messages of political prisoners from across the country who rise to support the resistance for the overthrow of the religious tyranny.
And the cause of those martyrs forges ahead, lively and spirited, in the perseverance of the PMOI in Camp Liberty.
I hail my compatriots, members and supporters of the Iranian Resistance, and the families of martyrs and political prisoners, who commemorated the victims of the 1988 massacre and demanded justice by staging different activities, including hunger strikes since the final week of July.
I express my gratitude to PMOI supporters inside Iran for their activities, and to our fellow compatriots who held three-day hunger strikes and demonstrations in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Canada, Norway, Sweden, France and the US.
I would like to emphasize that you showed that those heroes still echo the cry of freedom in Iran despite passage of three decades. Their names, their innocence and their glorious and unwavering endurance have shaken up the ruling religious tyranny and call for freedom of our enchained nation.

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In Iran#, students# and teachers stage protest rally in front of the Majles# (parliament)

University students and graduates from the Petroleum University of Technology in Ahvaz, located southwest Iran, gathered outside the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament)

Dozens of university students and graduates from the Petroleum University of Technology in Ahvaz, located southwest Iran, gathered outside the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament) on Tuesday, August 16, to protest the unfulfilled promises of the regime over their employment options.
This is the latest in a series of protests regarding the employment offers they were promised when they signed up to study there, the state-run Tabnak website reported.
That same day, elementary school teachers held a protest outside the Majlis for the third consecutive day over the law regarding teachers' employment.
The protesters came from all over Iran to demand that their contracts are revised before the start of the new school year.

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(Video) Boy in the ambulance: shocking image emerges of Syrian#child pulled from Aleppo rubble

n this still taken from video provided by Aleppo Media Centre, a child sits in an ambulance apparently after being pulled out of a building hit by an airstrike

Boy shown covered head to toe with dust was injured in airstrike on rebel-held district on Wednesday

Warning: this article contains images that readers may find distressing

Aleppo –Syria- Associated Press- 18 August 2016-A photograph of a boy sitting dazed and bloodied in the back of an ambulance after surviving a regime airstrike in Aleppo has highlighted the desperation of the Syrian civil war and the struggle for control of the city.
The child has been identified as five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, who was injured late on Wednesday in a military strike on the rebel-held Qaterji neighbourhood.

The startling image shows him covered head to toe with dust and so disoriented that he seems barely aware of an open wound on his forehead. He was taken to a hospital known as M10 and later discharged.
The image is a still from a video filmed and circulated by the Aleppo Media Centre. The anti-government activist group has been contacted to confirm details about when and where the footage was shot. The group posted the clip to YouTube late on Wednesday, shortly after Omran was injured. 

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Audio interview with former Khomeini heir reveals new details about 1988# massacre

Hossein Ali Montazeri, the dissident cleric revealing the most heinous massacre in Iran’s recent history

An interview with Ayatollah Khomeini’s then-heir, recorded in 1988, reveals the extent of brutality of the Iranian regime in the massacre of more than 30,000 prisoners which took place that year.
“The greatest crime committed during the reign of the Islamic Republic, for which history will condemn us, has been committed by you,” says Hossein-Ali Montazeri in the audio interview. “Your (names) will in the future be etched in the annals of history as criminals. Executing these people while there have been no new activities (by the prisoners) means that … the entire judicial system has been at fault.”
He is referring to the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, most of them members or supporters of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI, or MEK) in 1988 by Iranian security forces. This new evidence indicates that high-ranking Iranian officials were involved or aware of the killings.
On the tape, Montazeri meets with a “death commission” composed of Hossein-Ali Nayyeri, the regime’s sharia judge, Morteza Eshraqi, the regime’s prosecutor, Ebrahim Raeesi, deputy prosecutor, and Mostafa Pourmohammadi, representative of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), among others (Pourmohammadi and Nayyeri are still currently high-ranking cabinet members).
At one point, Montazeri states that Pourmohammadi and the MOIS had been aware of the coming massacre months before it took place.

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Iranian women keep fighting for their rights, against gender discrimination

Iranian woman activist promoting freedom of women in Iran asked to leave the Rio Sport match

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Olympic security personnel questioned a female Iranian volleyball fan Saturday when she showed up for a match holding a large sign that read 'Let Iranian Women Enter Their Stadiums' and wearing a white T-shirt with those same words.
Darya Safai, who sat in a front-row courtside seat at Maracanazinho arena and briefly cried during the ordeal 'because it hurts,' said that Olympic officials pushed her to leave the venue but she was determined to stay put.
'They said they didn't want the sign in front of the cameras and they asked us to leave,' said Safai, who was with friends also wearing the T-shirts. 'They even tried to impress me with military people. I think it is a pity they always listen to what the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran says.
'This is not the first time I had this experience but I won't give up because that's what Iranian women do, they keep fighting for their rights.'
The International Olympic Committee bans political statements at the games.
'So with all the things that happened here today at Maracanazinho, I stayed inside because it is my right,' she wrote in a text message to The Associated Press.

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UK Greenham church leads global vigil for imprisoned Iranian#-British woman

Holding vigil for freedom of British-Iranian women captive in Iran Evin Prison

A Greenham church took part in a worldwide candle-lit vigil recently in support of a British-Iranian woman who remains in prison without charge in Tehran.

Newbury Today, 13 Aug 2016 - Charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, aged 37, who has connections to West Berkshire, was seized by security forces in the Iranian capital as she waited for a flight home with her husband Richard and daughter Gabriella in April.
No formal charges have been made and she is reportedly now in solitary confinement and under investigation for issues relating to “national security”.
A petition demanding she be release, set up by her husband, has since garnered nearly 800,000 signatures.

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