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From August 11 to 13, the trial of Hamid Nouri began in Stockholm, Sweden, for his role in the massacre of as at least 5,000 political prisoners in 1988 when he was an assistant to a prosecutor at Iran’s Gohardasht Prison in Iran. The trial started just days after the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Raisi was a member of the “death commission” in 1988, and this trial is implicitly about his role in those massacres.

Activists with Burn the Cage movement in Europe joined the protests in front of the Stockholm courthouse.  They made a gigantic printout of the Emergency Appeal as published in the current Summer issue of the New York Review of Books.  The Mothers of Khavaran, some of whom are family members of the victims of the 1988 massacre, brought posters of their lost loved ones to display in front of the courthouse.

August 5 (coinciding with Raisi's inauguration) that was called against the Islamic Republic shooting down of Ukrainian Airliner flight 752 in January 2020, Burn the Cage activists made a poster with the printout of the Emergency Appeal as published in the current Summer issue of The New York Review of Books.  The poster said “1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners ordered by death commission that Ebrahim Raisi was key member of.  We must not allow this to happen again!”

These are examples of what everyone can do in spreading the ad of the Emergency Appeal – taking it into protests and amplifying its impact at the grassroots.  Send our campaign photos and reports of such actions in your area.