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FACT SHEET

The Committee to Pursue the International Crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the founder and organizer of the International Moral Court on Iran.

The mission of the committee (which is composed of 38 Iranian human rights advocates inside Iran and 27 outside Iran with different political and professional orientations, who believe in freedom, democracy, civil society, pluralism and separation of mosque and state) is to pursue the crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran and to assist in the initiation of proceedings before the international tribunals as well as before the competent tribunals of the European, the American and other countries against the responsible officials and agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Committee will publicize the court proceedings, judgments, orders and other actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran with the aim of mobilization of world’s public opinion and international shame against it. The Committee will try to present its views on the crimes of the Islamic Republic before the courts and competent organs of the United Nations, the European Union and other countries throughout the world.

The idea of creation of the International Moral Court on Iran was conceived by the Committee once the United Nations Commission on Human Rights – after eighteen years of constant concern and preoccupation with gross violations of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran – suddenly in 2002 dropped the post of the Special Representative on violations of human rights in Iran. The Committee is also of the opinion that the proceeding of the Moral Court would create a precedent for future use against other gross and systematic violators of human rights elsewhere in the world. All funding for the expenses of the Committee as well as the International Moral Court is based on donations by the Iranian people at home and abroad. The Court’s Membership is composed of a group of internationally highly respected individuals with different nationalities.

The International Moral Court on Iran will address:

1. Mass Executions in Iran,
2. Torture, killings and disappearances of Iranian political opponents inside and dissidents outside of Iran,
3. Gross and Systematic Violations of Human Rights in Iran,
4. The system of criminal justice based on “Islamic” Kangaroo Courts,
5. The system of Apartheid against Women,
6. Violations of Religious and Minority Rights, as well as,
7. Acts of State Terrorism inside and outside of Iran.

This attempt at the creation of a People’s Court is in fact the second of its kind in the history of mankind – the first being that of the famous Russell and Sartre Tribunal in the 1960’s. The International Moral Court is at present composed of nine highly respected world renowned personalities with different gender, nationality and religions.

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Dr. Manouchehr Ganji is the Founding Organizer of the Committee to Pursue the International Crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the International Moral Court on Iran. He is a former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, former Minister of Education of Iran, former Dean of Law School at Tehran University, Professor of Public International Law and Secretary-General of the Organization for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for Iran.