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Over 458,700 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 547 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Thursday, Oct. 17, 2021.

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Following the horrific assassination of the British MP Sir David Amess, the Iranian regime’s state-run media lashed him for his support of the Iranian Resistance and practically celebrated his assassination. Sir Amess was a staunch advocate of human rights and mainly supported the Iranian opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), in its quest for democracy in Iran for near four decades. “David Amess, a British MP, was stabbed to death on Friday Oct 15. Besides his right-leaning positions and supporting the Brexit, he had underlined he was honored to support the MEK terrorist grouplet,” wrote the official IRNA News Agency on Saturday. IRNA then adds that Sir Amess “Never apologized for his positions” toward the regime “and continued supporting the MEK until the end. These words are very much like those in Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa in 1988, which underlined that the MEK supporters should be executed. This fatwa resulted in the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisons. Iran’s state-run media were filled with hatred toward Sir Amess. “He [Sir Amess] was the co-chair of the so-called ‘Iran Freedom Committee’ which supported the MEK. Under the pretext of supporting democracy in Iran, Amess had supported the MEK’s criminal activities. He also claimed the Iranian people boycotted the presidential elections in support of the MEK.”

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On Wednesday Oct. 13, the National Council of Resistance of Iran held a press conference in the United Kingdom to highlight recent, formal requests for an investigation into crimes against humanity committed by the Iranian regime’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi. The latest of these requests was sent to Police Scotland’s Chief Constable Iain Livingstone by a former Scottish representative to the European Parliament, Struan Stevenson, in response to the news that Raisi may attend the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow next month.

“It is essential that Police Scotland seek the prosecution of Raisi,” Stevenson wrote in an editorial for The Scotsman. “There must be no impunity for mass murderers like this man.” He reiterated this message in Wednesday’s press conference at the Village Hotel in Glasgow, sitting alongside Hossein Abedini, a member of the NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee. Stevenson was also joined by Tahar Boumedra, a former UN human rights official who now heads the Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran, as well as by three of the five survivors of the 1988 massacre who signed their names to the 111-page dossier that Stevenson submitted to Police Scotland.

The press conference noted that similar dossiers have been presented to authorities in other Western nations, with the intention of facilitating multiple investigations into Raisi’s past human rights abuses and crimes against humanity. These, Stevenson said, would ultimately make it easier for the International Criminal Court to complete its own investigation and to indict Raisi for his role in the 1988 massacre.

In 2019, Swedish authorities arrested the former prison official Hamid Noury after invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction. That principle allows for serious violations of international law to be prosecuted by any country’s judiciary, even if the crimes in question took place elsewhere and involved both perpetrators and victims who are citizens of another nation.

Raisi’s crimes are among the most serious that could be prosecuted by the ICC, even has the legal definition of genocide. In a conference on the 1988 massacre following Raisi’s presidential inauguration, British human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson explained that the 1988 massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa from the regime’s then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini which described its targets as enemies of God and signaled an intention to wipe out entire faith communities that opposed the regime’s ultra-hardline interpretation of Islam. During the massacare of 1988 in Iran, some 30,000 political prisoners were executed.

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Kurdish political prisoner Mojgan Kavousi called her family and informed them that she was in a prison in Karaj- Iran. Political prisoner Mojgan Kavousi, writer and cultural activist was arrested during the protests in November 2019, for publishing anti-government posts in her Instagram account. The Revision Court sentenced her to six years and 4 months in prison, 36 months of which could be implemented. Mojgan Kavousi was serving her prison sentence in the women’s ward of Evin. Mojgan had contracted the Covid-19 in July and her health conditions deteriorated. Because of her illness, she requested to be transferred to the prison of Noshahr. Health and food conditions in Kachouii prison is one of the worst in Iran. Inmates in this overcrowded prison are out of touch with the outside world.