Call For an End to Impunity for Murderers in Iran

The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | 11-21-03 | Reporters Without Borders

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Call for an End to Impunity for Murderers in Iran

Reporters Without Borders/ RSF

November 21, 2003 /Reporters Without Borders has called on the Iranian authorities to break the impunity enjoyed by murderers and especially those who instigated killings, on the fifth anniversary of the serial murders of journalists and intellectuals.

In November and December 1998 several intellectuals and opposition figures were murdered in Iran, including Daryush and Parvaneh Forouhar, prominent liberal opposition figures, Majid Charif, editorial writer for the monthly Iran-é-Farda, writers and journalists Mohamad Mokhtari and Mohamad Jafar Pouyandeh.

A few months earlier Pirouz Davani, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Pirouz disappeared without trace and his body was never found. This wave of killings and disappearance led to angry protests in a significant section of the reformist press.

"We have reached the conclusion that highly-ranked figures are implicated in this case, figures whom we cannot challenge. That is why this file is frozen, " said Hossein Ansari-Rad, Iran's head of the Article 90 Commission of Parliament, whose role is to investigate written complaints against the executive, legislature or judiciary.

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