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GENEVA — Documents giving details of torture, executions and mass graves in Iran were presented today by Iranian resistance officials to the head of a U.N. investigation into human rights violations in Iran.
The eight documents named 653 prisons and “torture centers” in Iran and the identities of 1,786 persons accused by the resistance of being torturers. They gave the locations of 30 mass graves around Tehran and reprinted official Iranian reports on the execution of 1,200 prisoners in 1989.
Kazem Radjavi, a representative of the National Council of the Iranian Resistance, said the execution of political prisoners is often “camouflaged” by calling them drug traffickers to avoid foreign condemnation.
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