1980's Massacre

	(By alphabetical order)
	Setareh Abbasi A brief summary of Setareh Abbasi's presentation at the three day memorial conference for the victims of the 1980s massacre. (...)
	Payam Akhavan is Professor of International Law at McGill University in Montreal. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and University of Toronto. He received his PHD at Harvard Law School and has published extensively on human rights, including "Beyond Impunity: Can International Criminal Justice Prevent Future Atrocities?"(...)
	Soudabeh Ardavan The struggles in the 80s and the horrific crushing of those struggle in the period by the Islamic Republic constitutes an important part of the modern history of our country. (...)
	Marie Boti is a documentary filmmaker with a dozen films documenting the people's movement in the Philippines. Kababaihan: Filipina Portraits (made with Malcolm Guy) featured the role of the women's movement in the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship of 1986. (...)
	Zari Daknema I was born in the midst of the 1979 Iranian revolution in a politically charged family, int the years which followed tragedy strike my family, my two aunts, uncle, cousin and father were all executed by the Iranian regime.
	Bahram Ghadimi A political and social activist residing in Mexico, he was arrested in 1360 for supporting the Peykar organization. In 1363 (1985), he was granted asylum in Germany where he continued his political activity in various forms. He became involved in the "thought and struggle" movement. (...)
	Dr.Reza Gahfari was born in 1937 in Tehran. He was imprisoned by the military government of Tehran after the August 19th coup-d’etat for six month. He went to the United States after his liberation to continue his studies and got his Master degree in economics from the University of Utah. He then went to the New-York state university and got his PHD in political economics. (...)
	Mostafa Henaway has been active with the palestine solidarity movement through his work with the International Solidarity Movement in 2003 spending 6 months in Jenin. Also active with Sumoud a palestine prisoner solidarity group. Mostafa is now working with Tadamon! Montreal to call for boycott, divestment and sanctions to end Israeli Apartheid.(...)
	Saiid Ismati Date of birth August 26, 1981 Teheran, Iran. In 1982, when I was only one year old, my mother and I, we escape to Germany and living here since then. In 1988 my father “Reza Ismati” was executed after 7 year of captivity.(...)
	Stephan Kazemi, July 7th 2003 marked the beginning of a new chapter in Stephan Kazemi’s life, assuming full responsibility for pursuing justice for his mother. (...)
20 minutes video	Antigone 1988 En 1981, ma mère a été reconnue dans la rue par une de ses anciennes élèves comme opposante politique au Parti républicain islamique, et emprisonnée. Elle a quitté sa prison en 1988 lorsque ses bourreaux l’ont tuée, en même temps que des milliers d’autres camarades, dans un massacre qui demeure inavoué à ce jour. Leurs corps ne furent pas rendus aux familles.(...)
	Shohreh Kia was born in Iran; she was student in National University of Iran, when she started her political activism by participating in all left activity in the university. (...)
	Mahbubeh started her political activism during high school in 1977, with her professor of literature and her uncle as mentors. Along with her high school peers and many other iranian citizens she took part in the uprising against The Shah's regime. Mahbubeh took an active role in the Iranian revolution which overthru the Shah in 1979. (...)
	Iraj Mesdaghibegan his political life in the United States with the Confederation of Iranian Students. And returned to Iran during the 1979 anti-monarchist revolution. In 1981, he was arrested because of his activities with the People's Mojahedeen of Iran and spent the next decade in prison. He is currently an independent activist and researcher working on human rights, workers rights and prison issues.(...)
	Shahrzad Mojab, Professor at the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE/UT). Her areas of research and teaching are: educational policy studies; gender, state, diaspora and transnationality; women, war, militarization and violence; women, war and learning; and feminism, anti-racism, colonialism and imperialism; and cultural relativism as an ideological tool. (...)
	Ezat Mossallanejed holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy. A victim of torture in Iran, he escaped to Canada in 1985. In Montreal, he was a founding member of the Iranian Cultural and Community Centre, Institut Éducatif pour les Jeunes Iraniens, and the Montreal Democratic Forum. In Toronto, he worked as a Youth Counsellor with St. Christopher House and as a Refugee Policy Analyst, and later was the Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service – Canada. (...)
	Hassan Pooya is an activist and one of the founders of Kanoon-e-Khavaran which is a Toronto-based advocacy group in support of ‘ Free All Political Prisoners,’ No Torture,’ and ‘No Execution’. (...)
	Shokoufeh Sakhi is currently a Political Science Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at York University, Canada. Her research is centered on the possibility of a political resistance that does not devolve into that which it resists, addressing the problem of the increasing reduction of the late modern subject into a being directed toward personal material survival and the corresponding loss of capacity to effectively resist the totalizing system of capitalist modernity, comprehended as a tendency to produce those ‘individuals’ as pliable elements not merely of but also for that system. (...)
	Felicitas Treue, psychologist and psychotherapist Co-founder of the Collective against Torture and Impunity (Colectivo Contra la Tortura y la Impunidad) in Mexico, an independent human rights organization dedicated to the struggle against torture and support for torture survivors, their families and communities. Experience in the field of rehabilitation of torture survivors, training for health and legal professionals and as a psychological expert at the Interamerican Court for Human Rights. (...)
	Béatrice Vaugrante est la directrice générale d’AI Canada francophone depuis 2006. Elle est une militante active pour la protection des droits humains depuis de nombreuses années. Elle a joint les rangs des militants bénévoles de AI en 1999 en co-fondant le groupe Économie et droits humains et en défrichant le terrain de la défense des droits économiques, sociaux et culturels pour la section. Elle a été par la suite administratrice et présidente du conseil administration. Béatrice détient un MBA de HEC Paris. (...)