It Must Not Happen Again!

The 20th Anniversary of Iranian Political Prisonner's Massacre in Summer 1988

September 19-21, 2008

In 1988, thousands of political prisoners were brutally murdered by the Iranian government in what has come to be known as "the 1988 Iran massacre." It was the climax of a decade of mass executions in Iran.

The killings have been called “an act of violence unprecedented in Iranian history”, unprecedented in form, content, and intensity. Amnesty international believes these executions amounted to a crime against humanity.

In order to learn what has happened and is happening to us, the “Commemorative Committee for 1980’s Massacre of Iranian Political Prisoners” will hold a 3 day conference on the art and literature of resistance in Iran's prisons at University de Quebec à Montreal (UQAM).

http://www.1980smassacre.com/

Cela ne doit plus se passer!

20e anniversaire du massacre de l'été 1988 des prisonniers politiques en Iran

19-21 septembre 2008

En 1988, des milliers de prisonniers politiques ont été brutalement assassinés par le gouvernement iranien. Ce geste brutal, qui a fini par être connu sous le nom du "massacre de 1988 ", a été le point culminant d'une décennie d’exécutions de masse en Iran.

Cette vague meurtrière a été sans précédente dans l'histoire de l’Iran. Sans précédent dans sa nature, son contenu et son intensité. Amnéstie Internationale estime que ces exécutions sont équivalentes à un crime contre l'humanité.

Afin d'apprendre ce qui nous est arrivé et qui nous arrive toujours, le Comité commémoratif du massacre des années 80 des prisonniers politiques iraniens tiendra une conférence de 3 jours sur l'art et la littérature de la résistance dans les prisons iraniennes. L’évènement se déroulera à l'Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

http://www.1980smassacre.com/

Friday/September 19, 2008
7:30 to 11 PM

UQAM, Marie Gérin-Lajoie (JM 400),
405 St-Cathrine Est,

Red Names a Short video by, Amin Zarghami and Shahrzad Arshadi

Shirin Mehrbod, Singer (Montreal)

The Iranian dance group Khorshid Khanoom (ms.sun) (Montreal)

“Looli” songs and music (Germany)

“Sea……” a play by Hosain Afsahi (Toronto)

Poetry by Saeed Yousef ( USA)

Hosain Sharang poetry (Montreal)

Poetry by Daniel Barenboim (Montréal)

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Saturday September 20, 2008
9:30 AM to 8:30 PM

UQAM, room DSR 525,
320 St-Cathrine Est, Montreal, Qc.

*9:30 to 10:30 Registration and Breakfast

*10:30 to 10:50 welcome note / “Organising committee”

* 10:50 to 11:20 Video presentation by: Hassan Pooya / Kanoon-e- Khavaran, a Toronto-based advocacy group in support of ‘ Free All Political Prisoners,

*11: 30 to 1:30 “Those who survived and witnessed the atrocities and massacres” Panel of four women political prisoners:
Soudabeh Ardavan / Setareh Abbasi / Shohreh Kia / Mahboubeh

* 1:30 to 3 Lunch Break

* 3 to 5 Panel Discussion:
-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

- 5 to 5:40 coffee Break

-5:40 Film “The Tree that Remembers” and Panel discussion with the director Masoud Raouf and film Main Characters (Firouzeh, Shirin, Shokoufeh Sakhi, Reza Gahfari and Ms. Dolatshahi)

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Sunday September 21, 2008
10 AM to 7 PM

*10 to 11, Registration and Breakfast

* 11 to 11:15 Announcements from organising committee
*11:15 "Women In Struggle" A Documentary by: Buthina Canaan Khoury (Four Palestinian women ex-detainees who speak about their imprisonment.)
* 12 to 1:30 pm “sharing their personal experience of losing parent in Islamic Republic of Iran” -Stephan Kazemi / Montreal - Saiid Ismati / Germany - Antigone 1988 / 20 minutes video

* 1:30 to 2:30 Lunch Break

* 2:30 to 4:30 International experience / Panel Discussion:
- 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 /A political and social activist residing in Mexico
“Ripping the curtain”

* 4:30 to 5 pm coffee Break

* 5 to 7:30 pm /Panel Discussion:

- Shokoufeh Sakhi / York University (Toronto)
“A Taste of Mortaddela: Forgetting and Remembering the Summer of 1988”
- Iraj Mesdaghi / Sweden
- Reza Gahfari / England
“A BRIEF HISTORY OF 150 YEARS OF FATWAS AGINST WOMEN BY LEADING SHIITE CLERGIES IN IRAN”
- Ezat Mossallanejed / Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT)
“Khomeini and Crimes against Humanity”

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