What is justice for 1988?
Justice is a broad sense; from morality in ethics and divine view in religion to rationality and fairness concepts in law.
Historically, divine command theory that suggests only God can issue justice is the oldest among theories of justice. Ancient Greek philosophers Plato, in his work The Republic and Aristotle, who presented ethics as a practical subject, developed early philosophical theories of justice.
In the 1600s, John Locke based justice on natural law. In the 1800s, John Stuart Mill defined it as the best outcome for the greatest number of people, and John Rawls presented distributive justice as a form of “fairness” In 1958.
In contemporary societies, the state, as a political institution, has the authority to deliver justice through enforcing courts’ rulings. This produces different justice systems in different countries.
To us, seeking justice for 1988 remains a moral issue.
We seek justice for the mass execution of about 5,000 innocent political prisoners in the Islamic Republic in Iran during the summer of 1988, because it is the right thing to do.
Up to this date, those who committed and aided in this crime remained in power in Iran, and some of them take prominent positions in political and academic institutions in liberal democratic countries.
In our search for justice, regardless of our political affiliation or our nationality, we come together to reform the political and legal systems in different countries through all moral means.