The investigation into the assassination of the Iranian opposition figure Kazem Rajavi in Switzerland in 1990 has been re-opened. His brother has obtained from the Federal Criminal Court an extension of the investigation for genocide and crimes against humanity. Rajavi, then representative of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Switzerland, was gunned down in broad daylight by several agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) on April 24, 1990, as he was driving to his home in Coppet, a village near Geneva. The renowned human rights advocate had been granted political asylum in Switzerland in 1981. In May 2020 the public prosecutor’s office for canton Vaud announced its intention to close the case against 13 members of the Iranian secret service for murder, complicity and instigation. It said the 30-year statute of limitations had been reached. As plaintiff, one of Rajavi’s brothers, Saleh Rajavi, said in July 2020 the facts...
