According to Amnesty International, the authorities have begun desecrating the unmarked mass graves of those executed in different cities including in Mashhad northeast Iran and in Ahwaz in the south of the country, fearful of the spread of the call for justice campaign regarding the victims of the 1988 massacre.

According to Amnesty International, the vast majority of the executed were affiliated with the main opposition People’s Mojahehin of Iran

By: Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
Huffington post , Jun 9, 2017-- A resolution was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, condemning an atrocity that most Americans, and indeed most westerners, have never heard of: the 1988 killings of approximately 30,000 political prisoners in Iran.

Lawmakers led by Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ed Royce (R-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Pete Sessions (R-TX), and 42 of their colleagues from both sides of the aisle, 

chose to try to right that wrong, introducing legislation, H. Res. 188, deploring the murder of victims who “included thousands of people,

 including teenagers and pregnant women, imprisoned merely for participating in peaceful street protests and for possessing political reading material, many of whom had already served or were currently serving prison sentences.”