Audio & Visual
A Well of Bodies
Arrested the day after his 17th birthday, Mohammad Hoshi spent the next 7 ½ years of his life as a political prisoner. Mohammad recalls he […]
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A Gone Generation
Bahram was wrongly accused and imprisoned in 1987 by Iranian officials, for having housed a member of a political opposition party in Qaemshahr. In his […]
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Our Hearts Beat Like Caged Tigers
At age 17, Tahereh Khorrami was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison by Iran’s authorities. After being imprisoned for years with many of […]
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A Friendship Made Over Death
When Mina befriended a worker at Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, the woman told her a painful story. The woman’s child had home down with a fever, […]
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The Executed Won’t Harm You
Ten year-old Issa Bazyar was waiting for his father one night when he witnessed Iran’s authorities unloading the bodies of political prisoners from trucks and […]
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A Mournful New Year
Shayesteh Vatandoust describes her husband, Farzan Babri, and the way she was told of his execution by Islamic Republic officials. The couple was arrested for […]
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No Light at the End of the Tunnel
Ebrahim Rahmanian testifies about the activities of the notorious Qanat Group, a pro-Islamic Republic death squad in Jahrom, Iran. The Group would execute political opposition […]
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Step on a Landmine or Be Executed
Ashough was imprisoned in Iran during the ‘80s. During his trial, the Death Commission tried to make him volunteer as a soldier for the Islamic […]
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The Blood Moon
Hassan Golzari, a political prisoner during the tragic period of 1980s Iran, recalls the physical and psychological torture administered by the regime’s authorities. He describes […]
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Young Mothers, White Hair
Iranian Kurd Seyyed Moradi recalls the 1988 Prison Massacre and tells the story of his family’s ordeal. After his brothers, Kamal and Jabbar, were detained […]
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Growing Pains in Prison
Shayesteh Vatandoust and her husband were arrested in 1987 and imprisoned just before the 1988 Prison Massacres. Her charge was nothing more than attempting to […]
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Unanswered Letters
Esmat Tallebi Kalkhoran’s husband, Majid, and her brother Adel, were arrested by Iranian authorities in 1985 for their membership in a leftist political organisation. They […]
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Buried Screams
Solat Sheikhnia recalls the ordeal of her friend’s cousin, a funeral home worker, during the tragic era of 1980s Iran. One day in 1988, he […]
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Just Like Any Other Kid
During his six years in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad prison, Amir Mirzaian befriended the other young men in his ward. “They were just like any other […]
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Buried Truths in Khavaran
Watch the video about the destruction of Iran’s largest mass grave, Khavaran.
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Buried Truths in Mashahd
The mass graves in Mashhad, Iran allegedly contain the remains of 170 political prisoners killed in the 1988 massacres. But instead of preserving them as […]
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Buried Truths in Qorveh
Shocking example of the 1988 mass graves in the city of Qorveh in Kurdistan province in Iran. Authorities bulldoze gravestones and destroy commemorative signs put up […]
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Buried Truths in Rasht
Since 2008, the Iranian government has built new burial plots on top of the mass grave site and sold many of them in Rasht Tazeh […]
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Buried Truth in Sanandaj
In June 2003, construction workers discover a mass grave beneath the former site of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj in Kurdistan. Today this location forms […]
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Buried Truths in Tabriz
The Iranian authorities poured concrete over of an area which is a suspected mass grave in Vadi Rahmat cemetery in Tabriz. The site is now […]
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Criminal Cover-Up; a Visual Summary
This video is a short visual summary of Amnesty International and Justice for Iran’s joint research report, Criminal Cover-up: Iran destroying mass graves of victims of 1988 killings […]
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Satellite Imagery of the Destruction of Mass Graves in Iran
The satellite imagery of the mass graves in Rasht, Qorveh, Mashhad and Tabriz provides impartial scientific evidence which shows before and after the destructions. Watch the video for […]
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Buried Truth is Ahwaz
In 1988, the Iranian officials showed the families of over 44 political prisoners in Ahwaz a concrete slab. They were told that the executed prisoners […]
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New Evidence Reveals Deliberate Desecration and Destruction of Multiple Mass Grave Sites in Iran
New evidence including satellite imagery, photo and video analysis show that the Iranian authorities are deliberately destroying suspected or confirmed mass grave sites associated with […]
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Esmaeil, seated at the grave
caption: Esmaeil Bagheri, sitting by a mass grave for political prisoners executed in 1988, taken most probably in 2001. Esmaeil Bagheri, is the father […]
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In the Shade of the Lotus Tree
The photos and information in this article were provided to Justice for Iran by Abbas Bakhtiary, a writer and former political prisoner. *** A number […]
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After all, this is the Damned Land!
These photos were published alongside a report on the RaheTudeh website, showing a group of people visiting the mass graves in Ahwaz in 2007. These […]
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Rudsar, Shohada Boulevard: From a place of stoning burials to a Sunday bazaar
Iranian authorities in 1988 told the families of some executed prisoners in Rudsar that their loved ones had been buried beneath the southern edge of […]
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Iran: Mass Grave Site in Danger of Disappearance from the Public Sight
Marked by a long horizontal concrete block, the mass graves of the 1988 massacre in Ahwaz are deliberately hidden from sight covered by household refuse and construction […]
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The graves that are disappearing
Ahwaz mass graves being flooded A rectangular mass grave in Ahwaz A mass grave that has been buried under cement by the authorities […]
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