1980's Massacre | Event video program

2008 Event video program - Day 2 & 3

Video presentation by Hassan Pooya from Kanoon -e- Khavaran, a Toronto-based advocacy group in support of 'Free All Political Prisoners'
“Those who survived and witnessed the atrocities and massacres” Panel of four women political prisoners: Soudabeh Ardavan, Setareh Abbasi, Shohreh Kia, Mahboubeh Soudabeh Ardavan
Setareh Abbasi
Shohreh Kia
Mahbubeh
Payam Akhavan, International Law at McGill University “Accountability and building democracy”
Shahrzad Mojab, Toronto University “Trends in Prison Studies and Prison Literature of Iran”
Béatrice Vaugrante, Amnesty International - Montreal
Presentation of the film “The Tree that Remembers” and panel discussion, Breaking The Wall of Silence, with director Masoud Raouf and film main characters: Firouzeh, Shirin, Shokoufeh Sakhi, Reza Gahfari and Ms. Dolatshahi.
Mostafa Henaway, presentation about the system of Israeli Apartheid and presentation of the film "Women In Struggle", a documentary by Buthina Canaan Khoury (Four Palestinian women ex-detainees who speak about their imprisonment.)
Sharing their personal experience of losing parent in Islamic Republic of Iran Stephan Kazemi (Montreal), Saiid Ismati (Germany), Zari Daknema (Montreal) Stephan Kazemi
Saiid Ismati
Zari Daknema
Presentation of the short film "Antigone", 1988, 20 minutes
Marie Boti, Montreal base documentary filmmaker speaking about Philippines political prisoners “Free Our Sisters! Free Ourselves!”
Felicitas Treue, co-founder of the Colectivo Contra la Tortura y la Impunidad (Mexico) “Torture, political repression and resistance”
Bahram Ghadimi, political and social activist (Mexico) “Ripping the curtain”
Shokoufeh Sakhi, York University (Toronto) “A Taste of Mortaddela: Forgetting and Remembering the Summer of 1988”
Iraj Mesdaghi (Sweden) "Ex-political prisoners, researcher and writer"
Reza Gahfari (England) “A brief history of 150 years of Fatwas against women by leading Shiite clergies in Iran”
Ezat Mossallanejed, Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT) “Khomeini and Crimes against Humanity”