Civil society hearing into the 1988 massacre in Iran

Tahar Boumedra, Geneva, Switzerland, 01/02/2018 - On 1 February 2018, at Geneva Press club, a civil society hearing in Geneva heard witnesses and legal experts and offered an adjudication of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. Tahar Boumedra, a former UN official on human rights, who has written two books on the 1988 massacre provided a full picture of the 1988 massacre and the failure of the UN to take appropriate action. He called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to launch a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the crime.  (Photo by Siavosh Hosseini/NurPhoto via Getty Images)