In its annual report on the state of human rights on this planet, Human Rights Watch criticized the Iranian authorities for persevering with “merciless suppression of peaceable opposition” and intensifying “punitive measures” towards girls who oppose the necessary hijab following the nationwide protests of 1401.
In this report, which was revealed on Thursday, December 21, referring to the deaths of “greater than 500 individuals, together with 69 kids, throughout the protests”, it’s emphasised that the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran should “conduct a clear investigation into using deadly drive by the safety forces and greater than They have refused torture, sexual assault, and different critical violations.
Michael Page, the deputy director of the Middle East division of Human Rights Watch, described the Islamic Republic as a “corrupt and tyrannical authorities” that “has used all the facility of its repression machine to crush opposition.”
The deputy director of the Middle East division of Human Rights Watch has additionally referred to as for the continuation of “unbiased investigations” by the United Nations about “critical allegations” associated to human rights violations by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In part of the annual report of the Human Rights Watch, referring to the repression of the Iranian authorities, it’s said: “Dozens of human rights defenders, journalists, members of ethnic and non secular minorities, and dissidents are serving lengthy sentences after being convicted on nationwide safety costs in extraordinarily unfair trials. They are in jail and a few protesters have died in custody beneath suspicious circumstances.”
Previously, the Committee to Protect Journalists had launched the Islamic Republic of Iran as “the worst jail for journalists on this planet” in 2022.
In its annual report, Human Rights Watch additionally mentioned the intensification of the Iranian authorities’s repressions within the months main as much as the anniversary of the protests and wrote: “The Iranian authorities threatened, arrested, prosecuted, and tried activists, artists, dissidents, legal professionals, teachers, college students, and kinfolk of these killed.” In the nationwide protests of 1401, they intensified their repression towards peaceable opposition.
In one other a part of this report, the “important” enhance within the variety of executions in Iran in 2023 is talked about and it’s added that the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic throughout the 1401 protests used “obscure accusations of nationwide safety” that led to the issuance of loss of life sentences towards the protesters. have drastically elevated.
The human rights watchdog referred to as the trials of the protesters “extraordinarily unfair” and, recalling the shortage of entry to a selected lawyer for a lot of defendants, introduced the issuance of 25 loss of life sentences in reference to the nationwide protests of 1401 and the execution of seven individuals on this regard.
Mohsen Shekari, Mohammad Mahdi Karmi, Mohammad Hosseini, Majidreza Rahnavard, Saleh Mirhashmi, Majid Kazemi-Sheikhshabani, and Saeed Yaqoubi Kurdsafli had been executed in reference to final 12 months’s nationwide protests.
The Iranian Human Rights Organization, which is energetic within the battle towards the loss of life penalty, has lately introduced a 36% enhance within the variety of executed individuals final 12 months in comparison with the identical interval the 12 months earlier than.
In its report, the Human Rights Watch has identified the intensification of the Islamic Republic’s efforts to implement necessary hijab legal guidelines, together with by punishing opponents, confiscating automobiles, sealing guilds, and submitting court docket circumstances for these in favor of voluntary veiling.
In one other a part of the annual report of this human rights group, the rising stress on Baha’is and using “a lot harsher suppression ways” in Kurdistan and Sistan and Baluchistan provinces have been mentioned.
In the 2024 World Report, which is the thirty fourth annual report of this group, Human Rights Watch has analyzed the efficiency of human rights in additional than 100 international locations of the world.
According to this report, Tirana Hassan, the chief director of Human Rights Watch, described 2023 as an necessary 12 months in suppressing human rights, committing warfare crimes, selective anger and transactional diplomacy, and requested governments to be constant in implementing their human rights obligations.