Iranians living in France on Saturday rallied in central Paris to denounce the upsurge in the rate of executions in Iran under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani and call on European governments to make human rights the focus of their Iran policy. The gathering coincided with the 27th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of Iran’s political prisoners.
Iranian and French supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) organized a human rights display in Châtelet, in the heart of Paris, exposing the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran.
At least 44 prisoners, including two women, have been executed in Iran, in some cases in public squares, in the past 11 days.
The protesters in Paris called on European governments to condition an improvement of relations with Tehran on an end to the killing spree and Tehran’s export of terror and fundamentalism.
