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Your Honor,
We, the undersigned Iranian and worldwide human rights organizations, request your nation to resume the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Islamic Republic of Iran and the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Islamic Republic of Iran. We urge you to assist the extension of The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) speaks on the fifty fifth session of the Human Rights Council. Continuing these two distinct and complementary missions is crucial for the Security Council to meet its mandate to advertise and defend human rights in Iran.
We additionally name in your authorities to make use of this chance to publicly sound the alarm on the gross and chronic human rights violations dedicated on this nation. Some of those, the FFMI decided, “consisted of crimes towards humanity…dedicated as a part of a widespread and systematic assault.” To civilians – girls, ladies and others who stand for human rights,” she stated, calling for an finish to those violations and for justice, fact and reparations.
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At this convention, the Security Council will as soon as once more be introduced with a big physique of proof demonstrating the persevering with disaster of systemic impunity, whereby crimes beneath worldwide legislation and different human rights violations go unpunished inside nations. These embody widespread violations of the best to life, the best to be free from torture and different ill-treatment, the safety and liberty of individuals, truthful trials, efficient cures, and freedom of faith, perception, and expression. The rights to peaceable meeting and affiliation, the rights to privateness, well being, schooling, livelihood, and work, as detailed within the appendix to this letter.
Women and ladies proceed to be handled as second-class residents amid a rising crackdown on violations of degrading and abusive obligatory veiling legal guidelines. Lesbian, homosexual, bi, transgender, and intersex folks, in addition to ethnic and spiritual minorities, are additionally topic to systematic discrimination. Targets embody Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Baluchis, Kurds, and Turkmens. An individual who belongs to a non secular or persuasive minority, comparable to Baha’is, Christians, Gonabadi Dervishes, Jews, Yarsanis (Ahl-e-Haq), Sunni Muslims, and atheists.
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FFMI’s mandate to deal with violations dedicated through the 2022 nationwide protests, with a specific concentrate on girls and youngsters, established following the custodial dying of Zina Mahusa Amini stays necessary. Not solely do violations associated to the 2022 protests proceed to reverberate inside Iran, however this obligation additionally performs an necessary position in addressing the impunity that fuels these and different human rights abuses. There is.
As famous above, crimes beneath worldwide legislation associated to the 2022 protests proceed. Thousands of individuals, together with kids, have been subjected to abusive interrogations, arbitrary detention, unfair prosecution, suspension of schooling and employment, and expulsion for peacefully exercising their human rights. Intelligence and safety providers proceed to focus on households of these unlawfully killed throughout protests, searching for fact and justice for the murders of their family members. At least 9 folks had been arbitrarily executed in reference to protests following grossly unfair trials. In January 2024, UN specialists strongly condemned the execution of Mohammad Ghobadou and stated that at the least 4 folks reportedly stay at imminent threat of execution in reference to nationwide protests. and at the least 15 others are dealing with the dying penalty. Meanwhile, impunity continues, with an neutral, impartial and efficient No home investigation has been performed.
As the Council emphasised in a decision final yr, “persistent and systematic impunity for gross human rights violations and an absence of accountability… creates a good surroundings for perpetrators and for victims to obtain efficient redress.” This scenario of widespread impunity for human rights violations and worldwide crimes have to be addressed to stop previous patterns of violations from being repeated sooner or later. is required. Only impartial legislation enforcement businesses with the suitable assets, personnel and time can adequately handle this elementary problem. It is evident that FFMI has an necessary position to play on this regard.
In line with its mission, FFMI locations the scenario of ladies and ladies on the heart of its analysis. The report states that crimes towards humanity – gender-based persecution – are being dedicated in Iran, and that there’s “widespread and deep-seated structural and institutionalized discrimination towards girls and ladies that permeates all spheres of private and non-private life”. “This is a major problem,” he concluded. It is the set off and enabler of established violations and crimes. If FFMI’s mandate is prolonged, it will likely be capable of analyze in additional depth the gender dimensions of recorded human rights violations and crimes.
Despite delays within the operational course of and budgetary challenges outdoors its jurisdiction, FFMI has made important progress in investigating violations dedicated in reference to the protests. However, as famous above, gaps stay and FFMI requires extra time and satisfactory assets to course of the numerous quantity of proof collected. With extra time, FFMI will handle any remaining gaps in its findings earlier than submitting its last report and search justice, fact, and reparations for grave human rights violations and crimes beneath worldwide legislation by Iranian officers. might additional promote this path. This will be sure that the voices of survivors, victims and their households are heard as they share their testimonies and take part in establishing fact and justice.
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Signer
Abdulrahman Bormand Iranian Human Rights Center (ABC)
human rights organizations
Ahwaz human rights group
All Human Rights for All in Iran
amnesty worldwide
Arce Sebom
Article 18
Article 19
Iran-Azerbaijan People’s Human Rights Association (AHRAZ)
baroque activist marketing campaign
Balochistan Human Rights Group
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Research (CIHRS)
Iranian Human Rights Center
Supporters Center for Human Rights (CSHR)
Ensemble Contre La Peine de Morte (ECPM)
Femena
entrance line defender
Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect
Harm Reduction International
hengo human rights group
Human Rights Watch
Impact on Iran
International Bar Association Human Rights Research Institute (IBAHRI)
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ)
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
human rights in iran
Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC)
justice for iran
Kurdistan Human Rights Association – Geneva (KMMK-G)
Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)
Kurdopa human rights group
mian group
Minority Rights Group International
Outright Action International
pen america
Siamak Puruzand Foundation (SPF)
united for iran
UNNPO – Nations and other people’s organizations with out illustration
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
6Rang – Iranian Lesbian & Transgender Network
Annex
Throughout the yr, the dying penalty, corporal punishment comparable to flogging and mutilation, and jail sentences had been handed down or executed by means of grossly unfair trials inside a judicial system that lacked independence and, in keeping with the Special Rapporteur, performed a repressive position. It is an organ somewhat than an impartial physique on which people ought to rely. ” Detainees are routinely denied entry to impartial legal professionals, and because the Special Litigation Group has highlighted, legal professionals are topic to “rules and violations of worldwide requirements totally free and impartial observe.” They usually work in danger in a authorized occupation that’s restricted by rules and the best to a authorized occupation and a good trial.
Additionally, the previous yr has seen elevated ranges of judicial harassment and arbitrary detention of 1000’s of individuals, together with kids, for peacefully exercising their human rights. Affected folks embody girls and ladies who seem in public with out the obligatory scarf, actors and musicians, writers and teachers, journalists, college college students, lesbians, gays, bis, trans and different numerous genders. and intersex (LGBTI) people, and human rights activists. They embody staff’ rights activists, girls’s rights activists, kids’s rights advocates, legal professionals, and households searching for fact and justice for victims of wrongful killings.