September 2, 2005

Remembering Summer of '88

Khavaran cemetery, Tehran

IRANIAN SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS -- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Gathering in memory of victims of the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988 (koshtar 67)
Prison, torture, execution and the effects on the victims' families

Place
First Unitarian Church    
160 N 3rd Street in Downtown San Jose ,CA

Date & time
September 10, 7:00 pm

There will also be TV programs on September 8th and 15th on Iranian satellite Channel ONE at 9:30 PM Tehran time and 10:00 AM Los Angeles time.You can also watch these programs on PamTV.us.

Contact
(408) 313-5186
koshesh@aol.com

Guest speaker
Mihan Rusta is a human rights & women's rights activist currently working for Iranian Refugee in Berlin.

Movie
"From Screm to Scream" directed by Pantea Bahrami (Persian with English subtitle)

This is the story of a young woman who spent 8 years of her youth in a prison of the Islamic Republic. Her story is a part of the story of this generation of Iranian women and a part of the political history of Iran, which the Islamic Regime did not speak about and was kept hidden until now. Massacres from 1981 to 1988 are still unknown for the new generation.

She is also an artist. There are 200 paintings and designs in this documentary that she painted in prison and sent out of jail illegally. She describes the relationship between political prisoners, her protest, but also their sadness, pain, fear, horror, sadness, loss and much more…

"From Screm to Scream" was selected for the 2004 International Meetings of Women and Cinema in Florence, Italy.

Links
-- IranTestimony.com

News & features
-- Last words written by condemned prisoners before their execution
-- Khavaran Cemetery: Families object to plans to conceal mass graves from 1988 prisoner massacres
-- Radio Farda: 17th anniversary of mass execution of political prisoners in Iran. Interview with Ramin Ahmadi