Thom invited to sign open letter urging UN to open query into Iran's 1988 killings

Thom was invited to sign an important open letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling for an international inquiry into the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran.

The letter was co-signed by some 460 people, including prominent former U.N. judges and investigators, a former president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Sang-Hyun Song, and Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. ambassador for global criminal justice.

The letter calls on U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet to investigate the 1988 "massacre" of political prisoners in Iran, including the alleged role of its current president, Ebrahim Raisi, at that time.

For more detail, please see press coverage from Reuters. The full text of the letter is available here, together with profiles of all the signatories.