Following a complaint filed by political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances recognized her political prisoner siblings, executed in 1988, as enforced disappeared people.
The working group accepted Maryam Akbari Monfared’s complaint about the execution of her brother, Abdulreza, and her sister, Roqieh Akbari Monfared, among the thousands of political prisoners massacred in summer 1988, urging the Iranian regime to explain about their fate and their place of burial.
According to the UN regulations, their dossiers as enforced disappeared people will remain open as far as Iranian officials have not announced the details of and the reason for their executions as well as their places of burial.
Plaintiff Maryam Akbari was arrested during the 2009 uprisings and has been held since, without a single day of leave for almost 8 years.
