• Bidaran writes to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  23 May 2023, by Bidaran

  In addition to the two members of the Baha’i faith who were buried in mass graves in Khavaran last year, in the period between April 4 and May 4 of 2023, 7 more Bahais were buried at this site without the knowledge or presence of their families. This is a known ploy by the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security to pit the victims’ families against one another, and to destroy the incriminating evidence.

• Khavaran Cemetery: a Symbol of Repression against Baha’is, Mass Executions
  9 May 2023, by IRANWIRE

  Bidaran, the first website documenting the 1988 massacre, has now launched a campaign titled “Khavaran Endures.”

• FOR A LEAF
  29 April 2023, by Mehdi Aslani

  Since it’s inception, the Islamic Regime in Iran has been synonymous with prison. Not wishing to underestimate the sufferings of victims and their families by the Regime in recent years, this work concentrates on the first decade of Islamic Republic, signifying the most grotesque period of prisons. Documenting the accounts of families of political prisoners shines a light on the infinite horrors perpetuated under the Islamic Republic and helps to understand prison processes during the bloodstained decade of 1980’s.

• Justice-Seeking Pact
  5 March 2023

  Individual or collective killings and mass intimidation have been one side of the policy of eliminating “others” in our society. The flip side is depriving large sections of society of their fundamental rights in every arbitrary, violent, and cruel manner. [Among the] harmful effects of removing “others” is the fragmentation of society and the spread of animosity among various social groups.

• Iran’s new president has blood on his hands
  8 August 2021, by Nasser Mohajer and Kaveh Yazdani

  Raisi was one of the four members of the death commission executing Ayatollah Khomeini’s two fatwas (edicts) that ordered the mass murder. Raisi’s involvement was first publicized thirty-two years ago, when three letters penned by Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri—then Khomeini’s heir apparent—dated August 15, 1988 were leaked in 1989.
  Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative and mid-ranking cleric, was inaugurated as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran on August 5. His election in June was a foregone (...)

• The letter from the families of the prisoners executed in the 1980s to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  27 April 2021

  We ask you “to use all your power and resources to immediately prevent the demolition of this graveyard which is a living testament to a huge crime and an embodiment of the historic memory of the people of Iran”.
  Excellency Ms Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  Javaid Rehman Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran to UN Human Rights Council.
  Mr. Ahmed Shaheed Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (...)

• Bidaran writes to UN special rapporteurs
  15 January 2020

  We believe that should such reports issued by international bodies reflect a more thorough and accurate investigation of the facts and present the findings in a clear and concise manner, they will more effectively serve their intended purpose of informing the public and advancing the cause of justice in Iran. Regrettably, this Letter, despite the important points contained within it, falls short of that goal.
  To the attention of the UN special rapporteurs Luciano Hazan : Chair-Rapporteur (...)

• Letter of the families of the victims of the 1980s massacres in Iran to Ms. Asma Jahangir
  1 June 2017

  The family of the victims of state crime, including the undersigned, are facing a dispiriting dead-end. On the one hand the judicial and security-political system of the Islamic Republic, despite our uninterrupted perseverance, has left our petitions and demands unanswered and we have been deprived access to a just tribunal.
  Ms Asma Jahangir
  With greetings and respect
  Re: Petition by families of those executed in Iran in the decade of 1980’s
  We the undersigned, mothers, families of the (...)

• Please do not let the Islamic Republic of Iran destroy the Evin prison, It is an important historical memory
  17 August 2015

  Ms. IRINA BOKOVA Director -General UNESCO
  Dear Madam,
  The Islamic Republic of Iran is considering the destruction of the well-known Evin Prison and its transformation into a public park. No one would oppose it , if it were not for the fact that Evin prison is a symbol of depravation and violation of human rights through the last decades of Iranian history. From its first days in the second half of the 1960s until now, the notorious Evin Prison has been the symbol of repression of the (...)

• Please do not let the Islamic Republic of Iran destroy the Evin prison, It is an important historical memory
  17 August 2015

  We would like to request that you help us to do this for the lasting historical memory and heritage of Iranians’ common knowledge.
  Ms. IRINA BOKOVA Director -General UNESCO
  Dear Madam,
  The Islamic Republic of Iran is considering the destruction of the well-known Evin Prison and its transformation into a public park. No one would oppose it , if it were not for the fact that Evin prison is a symbol of depravation and violation of human rights through the last decades of Iranian history. (...)

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