IRANIAN SUPREME COURT JUDGE DESCRIBES 1988 MASS EXECUTIONS OF POLITICAL PRISONERS AS “FAIR AND LAWFUL”

Violation of Religious Freedom in Iran

July 6, 2017-- A Senior Iranian judicial official has publicly defended the state’s mass executions of political prisoners and extended incarcerations of dissidents in the 1980s.
In an interview on July 2, 2017 with Tasnim, a news agency that maintains close relations with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),

Judge Ali Razini, the head of Branch 41 of the Supreme Court, described the executions of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 as “fair and lawful.”READ MORE