Family members said they did not get the body, a will or the location of a burial site. The student, Bijan Bazargan, was among an estimated 5,000 prisoners belonging to armed opposition and leftist groups in Iran, who Amnesty International and other rights groups say were executed in the summer of 1988. Image Bijan Bazargan was among an estimated 5,000 prisoners who Amnesty International and other rights groups say were executed in 1988. Now, a Swedish court will prosecute a former Iranian judiciary official for war crimes and murder in connection with Mr. Bazargan’s death. The case carries some notably public and damaging implications for Iran’s president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi, who helped decide which prisoners lived or died during those mass executions.

Source: International New York Times July 30, 2021 20:59 UTC