The Anglo-Iranian community, supporters of the NCRI, in the UK, is holding a rally on Monday 1 November, in George Square, Glasgow (G1 2DH), coinciding with the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow to urge world leaders To stand by the Iranian people and take immediate action to stop impunity in Iran by holding the regime’s leaders accountable for crimes against humanity and four decades of systematic human rights violations.

The gathering will highlight the involvement of the head of the regime, Ibrahim Raisi, and other senior officials in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners and their role in the systematic and genocide and the persecution of freedom advocates as enemies of the state.

Raisi canceled his expected participation in the COP26 conference after a group of former political prisoners, survivors and families of victims of the 1988 massacre filed a legal complaint against him in the United Kingdom and Scotland under the United Kingdom’s universal jurisdiction, requesting that he be arrested for crimes against humanity and genocide if he attended a summit. The United Nations in Glasgow.

Speakers at the rally will include Strwan Stephenson, former Scottish MP and Coordinator of the Campaign for Change Iran (CiC) and representatives of the various Anglo-Iranian communities.