Iran Solidarity Melbourne presents a night of political analysis and rare personal accounts of the horrific massacres of political prisoners in 1987-88.
Our main speaker is an internationally known Iranian author, former political prisoner, left wing activist and eyewitness to and survivor of the massacres, Mehdi Aslani. Mehdi Aslani is also the author of a book, Kalagh va Gole Sorkh (The crow and the rose) on the life of prisoners in Iran which is both a personal account as well as a political attack on the politics of the Majority faction of the Fedayeene Khalgh organisation of which Aslani was a member at the time of the revolution and during the subsequent power struggle. Aslani has often referred to the political mistakes of the Iranian left during the revolution as "great political crimes" and his account as an insider provides a unique opportunity for activists to engage with the political debates surrounding the outcome of the revolution as a well as a rare opportunity to gain insight into the extent of the crimes that were committed in the prisons of the Islamic Republic in those days. It is crucial, in light of recent events and the attention of the world media on the recent human rights abuses of the Ahmadinejad government, that we not forget that human rights abuses in Iran predate the current political crisis and have been a feature of the Islamic regime regardless of whether the government of the day called itself "reformist", "conservative" or "hardliner".
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