Draft resolution was passed in the US House of Representatives “condemning the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the killing of political prisoners in 1988 and the uprisings of recent years, including those of 2018, 2019, and 2022, and calling for justice for its victims.”
The bipartisan bill passed by 40 representatives, initiated by Republican Lance Gooden of the Judiciary Committee and Democratic Caucus Chairman Steve Cohen.
The draft states that the Prime Minister of Albania wrote in a letter to the MEP on April 19, 2016: Albania is fully engaged and committed to guaranteeing all the rights enshrined in the Geneva Convention of 1951, the European Convention on Human Rights, and all international laws relating to Iranian refugees.
The resolution calls on the United States government to ensure with Albania the full protection of Iranian political refugees in Ashraf 3 and their enjoyment of all rights under the 1951 Geneva Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights, including the right to life, the right to liberty and security, and the protection of property, as well as the freedom Expression, ensuring communities.
The decision stipulates that more than 900 men and women in Ashraf 3 have a history of being political prisoners and witnessed the regime’s crimes in prisons, and many of them witnessed the 1988 massacre and other political assassinations, and some of them witnessed the crimes of Ibrahim Raisi. They must have the full protection of standing before potential testimony in any international court.
The decision states that the massacre was carried out based on a fatwa issued by Khomeini targeting the PMOI, according to which 30,000 political prisoners, most of them from the PMOI, were executed.
The resolution adds that following this fatwa, death commissions were formed on July 19, 1988, whose members included the current president of the Iranian regime, Ebrahim Raisi, an official in the Ministry of Intelligence, and a government prosecutor to implement the fatwa.
