The Islamic Republic has described the so-called Fact-finding Mission (FFM) report by the United Nations in regards to the 2022 unrest in Iran as inauthentic, non-legal, and politically motivated.
Iran has additionally known as the report drafted by Germany, the U.S., and Britain as biased whereas Israel is committing genocidal within the Gaza Strip.
In truth, the report is manipulating and distorting info to satisfy the political targets of sure Western states.
Summary of the feedback of the I.R of the Iran
The so-called Fact-finding Mission revealed an undocumented, biased and politically-motivated report that sorely missing in any justified authorized foundation, drafted in an unprofessional method and primarily based on unverifiable allegations, and which is deeply in step with the political targets of some western nations. Unfortunately, within the period of appearing responsibly and recognition of accountability, when the individuals are getting increasingly hopeful of selling and defending human rights, the politicization of human rights by some western nations has reached its peak, and such nations developed a morbid behavior of using self-fabricated political and human rights mechanisms to hide their targets and aspirations beneath their experiences. The pure concomitant of this course of is the sacrifice of human rights and the frustration of the world’s individuals in worldwide human rights mechanisms and preparations.
Founders of the FFM, the principle violators of Iranian nation’s rights
Crimes towards humanity, struggle crimes and genocide in Gaza Strip: Silence with the assist of human rights claimants
In a scenario the place the Zionist regime has dedicated huge crimes towards the defenseless individuals by killing greater than 30,000 individuals and injuring greater than 72,000 harmless individuals and fully destroying tons of of hundreds of residential, medical, instructional, locations of worship and infrastructure within the Gaza Strip which fall inside the framework of crimes towards humanity, struggle crimes, genocide and ethnic and racial cleaning, and have severely violated all rules of worldwide humanitarian legislation and worldwide human rights, human rights claimants from nations and related worldwide mechanisms are unable to take any motion and so they do not even have the braveness to name this example a criminal offense towards humanity. But these claimants, on the pretext of the dying of one of many Iranian residents, which might occur in any nation, took a human rights pose and introduced themselves as defenders of the rights of the Iranian nation and Iranian girls and youngsters, using all their capacities reminiscent of interfering in Iran’s inner affairs, incitement and assist of chaos and destruction, creation of human rights monitoring mechanism, adopting resolutions and directing the fabrications of political and false experiences. These double and contradictory behaviors don’t have anything to do with human rights and are fully pushed by the anti-human insurance policies and approaches of nations such because the U.S, Germany, U.Okay, France, Canada, and so on.
2022 unrest, a pre-planned mission towards Iran
From the very starting, in response to the decision proposed by Germany within the Human Rights Council, the Islamic Republic of Iran explicitly said that it thought of this mission to be political and illegitimate, as its creation was primarily based on the false and biased assumption that final yr, Iran was confronted with a sequence of peaceable gatherings, and it mustn’t have taken motion to determine safety and counter the rioters! This is in stark distinction to the report of the Special Committee to research the unrest of 2022 (elected by the president), a duplicate of which was offered to the HCHR, which reads: “the Islamic Republic of Iran didn’t face peaceable gatherings final yr. Rather, many accidents sustained by legislation enforcement forces, injury to non-public and public properties and locations, organized riots and the intervention and assist of some overseas nations to the rioters and their actions and vandalism point out that Iran confronted full-scale riots. They failed nevertheless to attain their targets as a result of vigilance of honorable individuals and never accompanying the rioters”.
The out there knowledge, data and proof reveal that the opponents of Iran had been lengthy in search of an excuse to offer rise to a disaster within the nation. Therefore, within the shortest attainable time into the publication of the information of the dying of Miss. Mahsa Amini, they entered the stage of creating waves. Later, by taking up the propaganda house, they began their mission centered on the slogan of ladies, life, and freedom. As a matter of truth, the unrest was a pre-planned safety situation towards Iran, and the information of Miss. Amini’s dying offered the suitable platform for its inception and enlargement.
Non-independence and non-impartiality of the FFM and failure to contemplate exterior components associated to 2022 riots
One of the principle circumstances of investigation of any topic is the independence and impartiality of the investigators. These circumstances have been emphasised each as a clause of the resolutions establishing or extending the mission of the Human Rights Council Office Holders and independently, within the type of Resolution 5/2 of the Human Rights Council. Unfortunately, the mission in query lacked even a minimal degree of independence and impartiality on account of its primary dependence on some western nations. For this cause, all through the mission’s report, there isn’t any trace on the position of overseas nations, overseas and anti-Iranian media, social networks and terrorist teams within the creation and improvement of disturbances, whose documentation has been offered to human rights mechanisms by quite a few experiences.
Some findings relating to the influence of exterior causes on the unrest are as comply with
– Involvement and steering operate of facilities and establishments affiliated with some governments and overseas intelligence providers in giving rise to protest rallies and inner irritation:
– Declaration of express and clear assist and assist of officers and leaders of some nations for unrest in Iran;
– The overseas actors (supporters) within the unrest are as follows: some overseas governments, particularly the United States and the Zionist regime; Agents of intelligence organizations and providers of some nations; Refugees, fugitives and foreign-based and components of anti-revolution actions (terrorists reminiscent of MKO, terrorist teams, …); Social networks; anti-Iranian and overseas satellite tv for pc networks; ethnic, separatist and terrorist outfits primarily based throughout the borders; foreign-based customers of immediate messaging apps.
Bold presence of terrorist teams in 2022 riots
During the 2022 riots in Iran, some occasions and points that expose the hidden and visual dimensions of the narrative of those riots will be talked about as follows:
– The arrest of greater than 50 individuals from the operatives and associates of the terrorist group MKO who have been concerned in producing pretend information that incited rioters, organizing assassinations and destruction, direct presence within the scenes of avenue riots and destruction of public property, offering numerous tools to fight the police and incendiary supplies for burning locations and private and non-private vehicles.
– The arrest of 77 individuals from terrorist outfits of Komala, Democrat, Pak, PJAK, and a number of the high-ranking cadres of those teams who have been orchestrating, organizing and steering riots core on each facet of the border to inflame western Iran
– The arrest of 5 members of takfiri-terrorist teams together with 36 kg of explosives, who have been making an attempt to make use of the chance of the riots to plant bombs in individuals’s gatherings in addition to amongst rioters and blaming the explosions on the alternative facet to accentuate the battle among the many events can also be noteworthy.
– 9 overseas nationals from some western nations have been arrested on the scene of the riots or behind the scenes of the conspiracy.
– Identification and arrest of 164 thugs with a historical past of jail, drug dealing and consumption, hooliganism, rape, and so on. within the unrest.
– Discovery of a number of Molotov cocktail manufacturing workshops and a major variety of pistols, machine weapons, cartridges and shotguns from rioters.
Although the so-called fact-finding mission claims that it was in pursuit of an in depth investigation of the incident and discovery of the reality, by publishing this undocumented and illusory report, it has clearly proven that it has no mission and objective besides to cowl up the reality and render a reverse illustration of the info. The report of the fact-finding committee is definitely a repetition and a botched effort at legitimization of baseless claims that have been repeatedly raised within the anti-Iranian media and from the platforms of some Western governments. The formation of the so-called fact-finding mission with the political motives of quite a few sure nations is neither authorized nor professional.
Relying on unreliable and journalistic sources and intentionally ignoring nationwide report
The most evident precept in writing an investigation report is to make use of dependable and verifiable first-hand sources. The report of the fact-finding committee lacked any documentary sources and repeatedly used the strategy of induction and analogy to justify its baseless arguments. Basing the report on pretend data and never complying with the precept of “the necessity to receive info by goal and dependable data from dependable sources” exposes the disingenuity of the drafter of this report and its non-legal nature. A report is alleged to be thought of when individuals or establishments aside from its drafters may confirm the claims, or the paperwork and proof offered are sturdy sufficient to dispel any doubt or uncertainty. The so-called fact-finding mission raised many allegations in its report with out being clear about what paperwork and proof it needed to substantiate such allegations and the way it obtained these paperwork. It is regrettable that the mission didn’t pay any consideration to the provisions of worldwide legislation relating to “sufficiency”, “conclusiveness” and “compelling nature” of cited proof and proceeded to publish materials that don’t lend to verification.
There is not any denying that the report of the so-called fact-finding mission has been relegated to the assertions made by some fugitive criminals in addition to sources associated to terrorist teams and adversaries of the Iranian nation. Despite the truth that the Islamic Republic of Iran doesn’t acknowledge the Fact-Finding mission and considers it illegitimate, it has ready not less than 45 well-documented experiences on points associated to final yr’s riots, a lot of that are in response to the allegations of this mission. Naturally, these enlightening experiences that have been despatched to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights have been additionally accessible to the fact-finding mission. However, the committee most well-liked to not refer to those experiences and confines itself solely to the sources, knowledge and experiences offered by teams, people and media hostile to Iran. Therefore, the credibility, professionalism, independence and impartiality of the mission have been questioned.
Deliberately ignoring the widespread violence of rioters
A complete have a look at the varied dimensions and angles of the difficulty proves that professionalism, disinterested remedy and neutrality are among the many apparent traits of any fact-finding mission. It is actually deplorable that this mission has utilized the identify of fact-finding to itself, however has intentionally turned a blind eye to the rights of some extraordinary individuals, safety defenders, and legislation enforcement forces, who misplaced their lives or have been injured on account of the widespread violence of rioters and agitators, failing within the course of to deal with the large monetary losses to private and non-private locations and property. Despite the existence of documented knowledge and knowledge to point in any other case, this mission repeatedly emphasizes within the report that the disturbances of 2022 have been peaceable. This biased view clearly ignores the rights of the individuals who have suffered bodily and monetary accidents on account of the rioters’ violence.
One of the principle contradictions of the report is that the mission, on the one hand, authorized the destruction of personal properties, public and spiritual locations by the protesters, and then again, declared disproportionate using much less deadly forces reminiscent of tear fuel or water cannons.
Failure to supply documentation, counting on possibilities and offering common conclusions
In the eighth paragraph of the draft report, the mission states that “the findings introduced are usually not conclusive”. This implies that in lots of instances, the mission has reached a common conclusion primarily based on just a few examples. This method of reasoning is nothing however reaching a particular conclusion primarily based on presumptive causes. Therefore, the mission’s reasoning on this regard is totally compromised. Instead of discovering the reality and referring to certainties, the mission, on account of its prejudice, is extra prone to insinuate and cling to its presumptions. For instance, within the difficulty of scholar poisoning, the mission flip to conjectures to induce the view that the federal government is accountable for these incidents and used expressions reminiscent of “possible” and “unlikely” to justify its reasoning and thus “It is unlikely that college poisonings on such a scale would have taken place with out the intervention of the federal government.”
In this report, the mission has made numerous allegations however has did not again them up with cogent proofs. For instance, the allegations of a number of deaths in custody on account of torture (paragraph 45), the alleged rape of a lady in Kermanshah (paragraph 47) and the rejection of complaints associated to torture and ill-treatment by judges (paragraph 55) have been made, but unsupported by any documentation or stable statistics. In addition, the mission claimed that there was proof of the harm inflicted on Miss. Amini throughout her arrest (paragraph 19), whereas not one of the proof to show the declare (witness testimony, footages, medical doc, and so on.) was introduced and is loosely primarily based on alleged “patterns of police brutality”. For the allegation of extreme restriction of the suitable to peaceable meeting beneath Iran’s legal guidelines (paragraph 21), no authorized cause has been produced. This is even supposing the textual content of the Party Law and the holding of hundreds of assemblies throughout a yr with out police motion refute this allegation.
Deviation of the FFM from its mission
In addition, the mission has not even adhered to its political and non-legal mandate. Some instances of the mission’s deviations from its mandate are as follows:
– Judging with out investigation in regards to the occasions previous to 2022 (paragraph 14): The mission was solely tasked with investigating the occasions of 2022; due to this fact, the allegation of “suppression and impunity of earlier protest actions in Iran” is a departure from jurisdiction and an uncorroborated allegation. This is the most effective indication of the political and journalistic nature of the mission’s report.
It is value noting that the report, with the purpose of proving the violation of worldwide obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, insinuated that dying sentences haven’t been issued in Iran’s judicial courts for the latest crimes (paragraph 61), whereas figuring out essentially the most severe crimes within the Covenant International civil and political rights are left to the nations themselves, and the nations haven’t any obligation to comply with the advisory opinions of the Human Rights Committee on this regard.
The FFM concealment and dishonestly
In this report, the mission intentionally turned a blind eye to the occasions of 2022 and has departed from rules of justice and equity. Some examples of this intentional disregard are as follows:
– The allegation that the majorities of the protests have been peaceable (paragraph 21), is geared toward leaving out the truth that nearly all of terrorist acts reminiscent of attacking the police and… (Documents of which can be found) happened within the context of those protests.
– The mission’s report, limiting the protests to “chanting slogans, serving to others, driving vehicles as peaceable acts” or “violent acts reminiscent of throwing stones, burning tires or obstructing legislation enforcement” and concluding that these measures weren’t “imminent menace of dying or severe accidents justifying using deadly drive” and the motion of the safety forces was pointless and proportionate, searching for to show extra-legal killing and execution by the safety forces (paragraphs 25 and 32). In distinction, regardless of the clear documentation, the mission made no point out of rioters carrying firearms and assaulting officers with weapons and vehicles, burning vehicles, premises, tools and and so on.
– Alleging prosecution and punishment of individuals for performing secure behaviors reminiscent of posting on social media (paragraph 52) or alleging threats to staff of the anti-Iranian media BBC Farsi and Iran International and boycotting these networks (paragraph 84), with out referring to the content material of the talked about posts and networks, together with: educating easy methods to make IEDs or encouraging assaults on the police and authorities locations, is a part of the mission’s cover-up to corroborate the allegations raised by the decision sponsor.
Repeating the rhetoric of opponents and violators of the Iranian nation’s rights
Remaining price range as an excuse to plan continuation of the work of the FFM
Here is a humorous and on the identical time bitter, biting and regrettable remark made by the primary secretary of the German delegation in a gathering with the representatives of Iran on the UN constructing, quoting the members of the fact-finding mission “the price range we allotted to this mission is just not exhausted but and can be utilized for one more time period”. It is regrettable {that a} human rights mechanism is decided for a rustic merely due to spending the price range, revealing the gross degradation of worldwide human rights as a result of political actions of some Western nations that declare to be advocates of human rights.
Accountability of the I.R. Iran
All this political sport happened whereas throughout the riots of 2022, the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out intensive protecting measures primarily based on accountability and despatched the report of those measures by enlightening experiences to the workplace of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, measures that the mission intentionally leaf out of consideration, struggling as a substitute to disclaim any motion in the direction of accountability within the Islamic Republic of Iran by presenting deceptive evaluation and biased interpretations.
Some actions primarily based on the accountability of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which truly negate the creation of a fictitious and politically-motivated mandate of the so-called fact-finding mission, will be talked about as follows:
In common, the outcomes of the particular committee’s investigation affirm that the related authorities establishments, together with the legislation enforcement and safety companies and the judicial system of the Islamic Republic, acted responsibly within the face of the unrest of 2022. Issuing pressing, well timed and decisive directions for legislation enforcement and safety companies to regulate riots with the least quantity of resorting to drive and primarily based on self-restraint, fielding educated forces and appearing primarily based on a code of conduct, the judicial system’s efforts to reduce the variety of instances, widespread amnesty of the accused and convicts associated to the 2022 riots inside the framework of the Supreme Leader’s amnesty decree, dealing with public complaints relating to the conduct of legislation enforcement officers and judicial officers throughout the riots, coping with offenders on account of negligence or fault, cost of economic damages and blood cash to the survivors and heirs of the deceased, cost of damages to the injured, cost of medical bills of the injured, cost to the victims of the unrest of 2022 out of the particular fund of Ministry of Justice, as nicely compensation of harm sustained by private and non-private attributable to unrest within the nation’s provinces are manifestations of this accountability. The investigations of the Special Committee reveal that regardless of some few violations by some legislation enforcement forces, these violations don’t replicate in any method or method the principled conduct of the federal government and have been attributable to the conduct of a person. In addition, there was the required will to cope with such infractions in legislation enforcement and judicial establishments.
This mission that was created by some western nations, particularly Germany, with the cash donated by them in December 2022 and after the failure of Iran’s inner destabilization mission, revealed an organized sequence of distortions of info and lies. Not solely did they fail to seek out the reality, however has additionally made the info look like purposefully the wrong way up. Therefore, the report of the so-called fact-finding mission lacks any authorized validity in any respect, and the Islamic Republic of Iran fully rejects it.
The principal content material flaws and contradictions of the report
In the introduction of the report in paragraph 2, the mission claims that “it has had 20 correspondences with the federal government of Iran, but has not obtained any response”.
As talked about within the introduction, even supposing on the time of approving the mandate of the fact-finding mission, the Islamic Republic of Iran explicitly introduced that it didn’t acknowledge this mission and wouldn’t cooperate with it as a result of political nature of the mission and its targets, it ready not less than 45 enlightening experiences in regards to the allegations made relating to the 2022 riots and despatched them to nations and worldwide human rights mechanisms, together with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Many of those experiences have been ready in response to the unfounded allegations raised by the fact-finding mission. As could be anticipated, the fact-finding committee has had entry to those experiences like different mechanisms. It is regrettable that the mission not solely didn’t make any use of those enlightening experiences, but in addition claimed in a prejudiced method to have had no entry to Iran’s solutions.
In paragraph 2, the mission has additionally claimed that “in its engagements with the particular committee to research the unrest of 2022, it didn’t obtain a primary reply”.
This flawed judgment is raised when although the Special Committee to research the 2022 Unrest didn’t have any mandate to speak with the so-called fact-finding mission, it had video conferences with the so-called fact-finding mission twice in March 2023 and February 2024 with the purpose of clarifying and receiving attainable knowledge of the fact-finding mission for a extra detailed investigation of the difficulty, and knowledgeable it in regards to the following points: the mission of the Special Committee, its modus operandi, organising the secretariat, technique of number of the workers of the secretariat, receiving public complaints, motion plan, forming specialised working teams, methods of figuring out victims and alleged violators, making provincial journeys and assembly with some victims, strategies of receiving data from authorities teams and organizations and compensation strategies. It additionally requested the fact-finding mission to ship any data or knowledge that it might need to the particular committee to assist a extra detailed investigation of the incidents, however sadly, the mission most well-liked to stick with its political technique and chorus from substantive interplay with the committee.
In the literature part of the report (Paragraph 13), the mission claimed “suppression of peaceable opposition”.
This assertion is premised on two flawed assumptions. First, it’s peaceable to contemplate riots that end in a excessive degree of violence, incitement, destruction, terrorist acts and disturbance, and secondly, to disregard and cross over the measures taken by the legislation enforcement forces in an effort to reduce hurt to residents, together with avoiding utilizing firearms and deadly drive and accountability throughout the 2022 unrest. Since the outbreak of the unrest in 2022 and with the purpose of observing the rule of legislation, observing the Sharia and authorized limits within the implementation of authorized duties and coping with insecurity, the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted numerous safety measures, together with the issuance of directions to keep away from using firearms and deadly drive throughout unrest, a tolerance-based remedy of ladies within the technique of coping with unlawful gatherings, using specialised and educated forces to cope with riots and paying compensation.
For this cause, from the very starting, safety forces have been repeatedly given official orders to keep away from using deadly weapons. Here you may check with such bulletins:
– In an announcement on September 22, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces emphasised “that using fight firearms by the forces combating the rioters is prohibited and they need to solely use anti-riot tools and instruments to counter the rioters. In very uncommon instances, solely using non-lethal weapons reminiscent of paintballs and fuel launchers is permitted.
– On September 21, 2022, the Command of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps additionally issued a notification relating to “fully avoiding carrying and utilizing any firearms in coping with the unrest.”
– The Faraja command additionally issued a notification on September 20, 2022 relating to “the prohibition of using firearms of any sort to cope with rioters and management avenue riots and emphasizing the employment of different techniques and police tools out there within the administration of gatherings and avenue riots”.
Regarding calling the riots of 2022 peaceable, the mission also needs to be requested” Upon what logic a riot is taken into account peaceable wherein sixteen gangs and an organized arms smuggling community have been recognized and investigated? How may this unrest be declared peaceable when from September 17 to December 5 2022, 2,827 fight weapons, 5,487 riot weapons, and a complete of 8,314 weapons have been found from the rioters?! Can any neutral observer declare that the riots that resulted within the martyrdom of about 79 and greater than seven thousand injured and wounded members of the safety and legislation enforcement forces as additionally hundreds of billions of Rials in damages to private and non-private property have been peaceable!? It is regrettable that the mission, by repeatedly utilizing the idea of peaceable, has tried not solely to current a pretend narrative of the riots of 2022, but in addition is at pains to uphold the allegations of the Western nations, that are each the drafters of the mandate of this mission and its financiers.
4. In paragraph 18 of the reason of Miss. Amini’s dying, the mission claimed “arbitrary detention of Miss. Amini” and in an irrelevant and unwarranted conclusion, linked the incidence of this incident to “battle of legal guidelines and insurance policies associated to hijab with worldwide legislation”. In one other paragraph (68), the mission additionally addressed the difficulty of hijab and regarded it “discriminatory” whatever the non secular, cultural and authorized roots of hijab in an interventionist transfer.
First of all, it ought to be famous that the mission’s declare of detaining Miss. Amini is totally false. Basically, on this explicit case, there was no query of detention in any respect. Rather, she was solely being led to the Social Administration and Women’s Education Hall of the general public safety police for just a few hours to obtain some trainings and proposals on easy methods to adjust to the hijab legislation.
Regarding the mission’s determined try to current the incidence of a battle between the legal guidelines associated to hijab with worldwide legislation and its discriminatory idea, it’s also value noting that this method is principally a continuation of the efforts made by some western nations because the sponsors of this mission in an effort to impose western tradition and way of life and values which is certainly reprehensible, unacceptable and in contravention of the foundations of human rights.
In Iranian society from historic occasions till now, observing hijab has been a cultural requirement and has an inseparable hyperlink with the cultural custom of Iranian society. Historical research present that Iranian girls in pre-Islamic Iranian dynasties noticed an entire hijab. As a matter of truth, within the context of Iranian historical past, girls’s clothes is a results of cultural and social, non secular and ethical values and has been and is revered by the society. After the arrival of Islam in Iran, the hijab gained extra glory with the affect of the wealthy Islamic tradition, and Iranian girls safeguarded the precept of the hijab for non secular and cultural causes. In Islamic teachings, the observance of the hijab is emphasised and plenty of verses have been revealed relating to the duty to watch the hijab.
The faith of Islam and the favored tradition of Iranians, like all divine religions, emphasize the preservation of hijab and chastity as an ethical and social advantage in response to the decision of nature and human primordial essence. This is as a result of the observance of hijab in Iran has deep cultural and spiritual assist. This very background prompted Iranians to withstand the violent decree of “eradicating the veil” by the Pahlavi dictator on January 8, 1936, and to die in the way in which of defending the hijab.
After the victory of the Islamic Revolution, an incredible change occurred within the perspective in the direction of the position and standing of ladies in Iranian society. In Iranian and Islamic tradition, the household is the elemental unit of society and the epicenter of human development and excellence. In such a conception of the household unit, the girl can now not be deemed as an object and whereas recovering the essential job of elevating human beings, she has been the chief and companion of males within the public and political arenas, and consequently, in keeping with the Islamic viewpoint, she can have the next worth and dignity. Based on this, in keeping with the tenth Article of the Constitution, all legal guidelines, laws and planning ought to be geared toward facilitating the formation of a household, defending its sanctity, and strengthening the connection between women and men and youngsters primarily based on Islamic legal guidelines and ethics. After the Islamic revolution, in parallel with the expansion of ladies’s social presence, the social manifestation of the tradition of hijab and chastity elevated within the social relations of the Iranian individuals. For this cause, observing hijab grew to become a authorized requirement and emerged within the hierarchy of the normative and authorized system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Making hijab a legislation grew to become one of many levers of strain towards Iran from the very starting. Some western governments tried to whip up politically-motivated atmospheres by presenting hijab as necessary, distort the non secular, cultural and authorized background of the hijab which is principal cause for its survival in Iranian society, and discover a new software to exert strain on Iran. But the essential level right here is the efforts which can be made in an effort to drive cultures in the direction of embracing the western values and way of life by worldwide human rights establishments and mechanisms, which is certainly reprehensible, unacceptable and towards the foundations of human rights. The range of cultures within the international area and the legal guidelines and laws of nations ought to be revered. Some mechanisms and nations attempt to make all nations assume and behave like them. This is a sort of imposition and is totally opposite to the precept of self-determination and nationwide sovereignty of nations. The West and human rights mechanisms should come to the phrases that Iran is an Islamic nation and is ruled primarily based on Islamic requirements, and isn’t imagined to comply with their particular requirements. This doesn’t imply that the Islamic Republic of Iran opposes its internationally acknowledged obligations within the subject of human rights, nevertheless it implies that Iran opposes the imposition of the Western way of life.
5. The so-called fact-finding mission claimed in one other paragraph (19) that “Miss. Amini was subjected to bodily violence that led to her dying” and within the subsequent paragraph (20) it claimed that “the federal government failed to satisfy its obligation to research this dying”.
– The investigation committee of the Ministry of Interior, following the order of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, beneath the supervision of the Security and Law Enforcement Deputy Minister and the Secretary of the National Security Council;
– Specialized investigation workforce from the Medical Examination Organization;
– The investigation workforce of the Islamic Consultative Assembly following the order of the Speaker of the Parliament
– The formation of a medical committee with the presence of the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Health, the Vice Chairman of the Health Commission of the Islamic Parliament, the pinnacle of the Medical Examination Organization, the pinnacle of the Medical Board Organization, the consultant of the Cardiovascular Scientific Association, the consultant of the Neurosurgeon Association and the consultant of the Radiology Association in an effort to evaluation medical and therapeutic dimensions and medical data of Miss. Mahsa Amini.
The investigation committees revealed the outcomes of their works. In its knowledgeable report, which was revealed on October 7, 2022, the Medical Examination Organization introduced that the dying of Miss. Mahsa Amini was not attributable to a blow to the pinnacle or the very important organs of the physique. In this report, it was said: “Based on the hospital medical paperwork, the examination of CAT-scan of the mind and lungs, the outcomes of the bodily examination of the physique and post-mortem, pathology exams, the dying in query was not attributable to blows to the pinnacle and very important organs and elements of the physique”. The highlights of the report of the Parliamentary Committee on the dying of Miss. Mahsa Amini, which was introduced within the open chamber on Sunday, October 16, 2022, are introduced as follows:
According to the contents of the case, the written bulletins of the related companies, the reasons of the related officers, the evaluation of the complete CCTV footage of the Public Security Police, the minutes of the native examination and the sphere investigation of the particular inspection of the Greater Tehran Police Command, the statements of these current on the scene and the corridor of the Public Security Police Training Department, quite a few residents, companies and drivers of passenger vehicles primarily based within the place on the time of the incident, checking the paperwork and contemplating the proofs, there was no assault or bodily assault throughout the encounter, switch and deployment of the late Miss. Amini on the public safety police station.
6. In one other paragraph (21), the mission has claimed that “protesters have been introduced as a menace to public order and inner safety on account of their conduct protected beneath worldwide legislation.”
The mission’s allegation that individuals have been apprehended and prosecuted merely for taking part in gatherings and fascinating in protected conduct beneath worldwide legal guidelines is full untruth. During the riots of 2022, solely individuals who dedicated terrorist acts and different severe and violent crimes reminiscent of homicide, destruction and incitement, and so on., have been arrested and tried. It is critical to notice that the freedoms included within the human rights paperwork, in keeping with the provisions of those paperwork, are topic to restrictions reminiscent of the necessity to respect the liberty of others, order, safety and public well being. Moreover, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in 2020, by publishing the 58-page pointers relating to the applying of restrictions on peaceable gatherings within the occasion of violence and riots, said that “legislation enforcement officers, if obligatory and to the extent which is critical to carry out the obligation, could use drive.” The General Assembly of the United Nations, in a decision entitled “Rules of Conduct for Police Officers” authorized on December 17, 1979, additionally cited the identical difficulty and said: “Law enforcement officers, if obligatory and to the extent essential to discharge their duties could use drive.” According to Interpretive Opinion No. 37 of the Human Rights Committee, gatherings mustn’t have the content material of propaganda for struggle, or assist for racial, non secular and nationwide hatred. And in the event that they promote discrimination and violence, acceptable restrictions ought to be utilized. When the federal government is unable to guard the individuals from the opposition, the restriction could also be utilized”.
As a results of the widespread violence of rioters and terrorists, 25 individuals and 54 legislation enforcement officers have been martyred whereas in extra of 7000 legislation enforcement officers have been injured or wounded. According to the findings of the Special Committee to research the riots of 2022, by January 15, 2023, the quantity of 10967843 million Rials of harm to property and 9066351 million Rials of harm to locations had been attributable to the rioters’ actions. The query that the mission ought to reply right here is, “primarily based on which internationally acknowledged commonplace the acts of terrorism, chaos and violence that resulted within the martyrdom and harm of this variety of extraordinary individuals and legislation enforcement forces have been characterised as peaceable? How can this quantity of systematic and intensive assaults and injury to authorities, administrative, private and non-private properties and locations, together with to civilian administrative facilities and public providers reminiscent of banks, ATMs, ambulances (regardless of carrying sufferers), transport automobiles and public transport, police vehicles, fireplace engines, and so on. can de conceived as peaceable?” This is especially fascinating in that the mission, in paragraph 21 of its report, “acknowledges that safety forces have been killed and injured and that there have been situations of violence by protesters,” however claims in a contradictory conclusion that “the overwhelming majority of protests have been peaceable”! Which of the western nations that based the mandate of this mission have confronted this quantity of violence and terrorist acts throughout their gatherings, and if the identical governments are dealing with navy assaults and terrorist acts that endanger individuals’s lives and property, won’t cope with it?
In US, attacking the police or safety forces brings a few heavy punishment. Every yr, the US police have killed tons of of individuals simply due to the likelihood and suspected intention of an assault, whereas no assault truly takes place, and many of the killer policemen are acquitted in court docket. Furthermore, the violent conduct of the American police towards kids, college students and black individuals and the incidence of racism and discrimination between blacks and whites in America are nonetheless persistent.
In France’s protests final yr, greater than 90,000 safety forces and quite a few armored fight automobiles have been deployed towards 123,000 protesters throughout the nation. According to revealed information, the variety of arrests reached 1385 whereas 975 have been taken into custody. 118 protesters additionally sustained accidents. In common, in style protests in France towards rising inflation and the vitality disaster are severely suppressed by the police. In one of many gatherings, the place many college students joined the protests, the police brutally engaged college students in not less than 30 excessive faculties.
The Prime Minister of Canada additionally used the legislation declaring a state of emergency on this nation from February 14 to February 23, 2022, to finish the large protest of truckers generally known as the “Freedom Caravan”. These truckers have been protesting the necessary vaccination and border restrictions imposed following the Covid-19 pandemic. While declaring a state of emergency, Justin Trudeau introduced that the required powers will probably be given to the police to arrest and effective protesters in an effort to suppress the protesters. He claimed that declaring a state of emergency to finish the truckers’ protest in the beginning of this yr was a measured and proper motion.
It ought to be famous that there ought to be drawn a transparent boundary between peaceable gatherings and non-peaceful ones (with violence, carrying white weapons and firearms, utilizing hate speech, and so on.). Peaceful gatherings ought to be supported whereas non-peaceful gatherings ought to be handled in keeping with the legislation.
7. In one other paragraph (22), the mission claimed that “551 individuals have been killed throughout the unrest”.
Due to the excessive degree of violence unleashed by rioters throughout final yr’s riots, their employment of white weapons and firearms, in addition to the infiltration of the riots by quite a few terrorist operatives, quite a few individuals in addition to legislation enforcement forces misplaced their lives. Taking into consideration the out there paperwork and proofs, together with the experiences of related home establishments such because the Medical Examination Organization, navy, legislation enforcement and safety companies, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Justice, in addition to assembly and speaking with some households of the deceased, the Special Committee managed to determine the standing of the deceased and martyrs of riots of 2022, the proper statistics of which will probably be introduced by this Committee. According to the investigations, the official statistics are a lot decrease than the fictional statistics of the so-called fact-finding mission. The Special Committee additionally examined the alleged record of 538 lifeless individuals revealed by a so-called human rights non-governmental group, which appears to be the premise of the so-called FFM report, so far as attainable. 18 of the alleged individuals who have been launched as lifeless are at the moment alive. Another 78 individuals, who have been launched as victims of the riots, additionally died in incidents not associated to the riots, reminiscent of sickness, accident, suicide, intentional murder by one other particular person, and so on. Many of the alleged individuals have been additionally examined, however the lack of obligatory specs made it not possible for the Special Committee to establish and study their instances. Merely proposing a sequence of names with out exact and unverifiable identification specs can not safe recognition for these allegations.
8. In paragraph 24 of its report, the mission claimed that “in a doc, the judiciary officers emphasised that in one night, the legislation enforcement forces used greater than 300 rounds of dwell ammunition”.
The existence of such a doc is totally denied and it’s a determined try by the mission to doc its claims with fabricated paperwork. This declare is made whereas the legislation enforcement forces weren’t allowed to hold and use firearms throughout the gatherings in keeping with the introduced insurance policies. It is value noting that on the primary day of the riots the Chief of Law Enforcement Forces the Islamic Republic of Iran, issued and communicated an instruction for max restraint to all of the police forces throughout the nation in an effort to defend the rights of the residents. In this instruction, the next actions have been underscored:
– Prohibition of carrying weapons by police forces throughout protests;
– Banning coming into universities and academic facilities by police forces;
– The must respect the rights of detainees, together with the prohibition of any assault and battery or insulting motion;
– Prohibition of any arbitrary detention;
– Providing all remedy and medical providers to detainees;
– Guaranteeing the suitable of these taken into custody to speak with their households and legal professionals
9. In paragraph (33), the mission claims “arbitrary arrest of protesters on account of a variety of protected behaviors” and in paragraph (34) it claims that “greater than 60,000 individuals have been arrested throughout the unrest”.
During final yr’s riots, no particular person was arrested for taking part within the gatherings, and solely individuals who dedicated crimes reminiscent of violence, incitement, destruction, and the like have been taken into custody. The then Public Prosecutor of the nation issued a particular order to the prosecutors throughout the nation on September 28, 2022. In this order, the Public Prosecutor, whereas emphasizing compliance with authorized requirements and quick and correct dealing with of all instances, burdened that “individuals who shouldn’t have any legal file and there are not any convincing proofs, paperwork, experiences of witnesses and experiences of legislation enforcement, safety and intelligence officers to show their guilt and the knowledgeable committee has confirmed that they didn’t play a task within the unrest, ought to be launched after being given the required steering and directions. The then Public Prosecutor additionally emphasised that “individuals who have triggered the martyrdom or harm of safety guards and other people, those that have destroyed and set fireplace to non-public and public properties and locations, workplaces, banks, fuel stations, ATMs, and so on., individuals who have attacked navy, legislation enforcement and safety headquarters and locations, thugs and mobsters with legal data and abusers of our on-line world who performed a outstanding position in inciting, encouraging and organizing the rioters, offered that their accusation file has adequate documentation, proof and proofs, ought to be detained a court docket listening to is held and a remaining sentence is issued. Such instances ought to be adopted up with accuracy, velocity and dedication and the court docket ought to be requested to difficulty the required rulings”.
The mission’s statistics of 60,000 arrests are fully fabricated and are denied. The Special Committee to Investigate the Riots of 2022 has said in its report in regards to the detainees that throughout the Riots of 1401, instances have been filed for about 34 thousand individuals (submitting a case is just not the identical as detention) and their standing is as follows:
– Thanks to the final amnesty of the Supreme Leader, the legal instances filed for 22,000 defendants and convicts of the 2022 unrest have been closed and their legal data have been expunged, each these beneath arrest or those that had been launched on bail or owing to different judicial orders whatever the stage of their prosecution, pending or in any other case.
– Investigations of the Special Committee present that till the preparation of this report, solely 292 individuals are nonetheless in custody for committing violent legal acts, together with inflicting intensive injury, arson, and committing safety crimes and terrorist acts. 158 of those individuals have been sentenced to incarceration whereas the remaining have been indicted.
10. In different paragraphs, together with (36, 37, and 46), the mission has put ahead baseless allegations relating to “bodily and sexual violence towards detainees whereas being transferred to the detention facilities” and, in its opinion, has established a sample of sexual and gender-based violence.
11. In paragraph 55, the mission alleges “systematic violation of truthful trial ensures” throughout the unrest of 2022.
In the legal guidelines of the Islamic Republic of Iran, due course of is taken into account as an indispensable a part of the proceedings. The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been a very powerful step to determine the rule of legislation after the Islamic Revolution. In the Constitution, eliminating unfair discrimination and creating truthful alternatives for everybody in all materials and non secular fields is among the many most essential duties of the federal government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Also, offering the great rights of each women and men and guaranteeing truthful judicial safety for everybody and the equality of the general public earlier than the legislation is likely one of the duties of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Article 3 of the Constitution). Common legal guidelines have additionally acknowledged the rules of truthful proceedings primarily based on Islamic requirements. The assure of the implementation of the articles offering for truthful proceedings as stipulated within the Constitution has been laid out in widespread legal guidelines.
According to Article 34 of the Constitution, litigation is the suitable of each particular person, everybody could check with the competent courts for the aim of submitting a lawsuit, and nobody will be prohibited from the court docket that they’ve the suitable to check with.
In order to show that the mission’s allegation is fake, one can safely assert that the related acknowledged worldwide requirements haven’t been missed in Iran’s judicial system. Also, contemplating the Islamic nature of the ruling system in Iran, some further requirements have additionally been put in place to guard the rights of defendants. Accordingly, the suitable to a good trial is likely one of the rights acknowledged and assured each within the legislative system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and in its government system, and if there are situations of its violation, they are going to be prosecuted.
12. In different paragraphs, together with (39) and (40), (57) and (58), the mission claimed “arrest of youngsters throughout protests” and “lack of entry of these detained to legal professionals” and “lack of entry of these detained to the contents of the case”.
Regarding entry to a lawyer as one of many principal indicators of entry to justice, Iranian legal guidelines have acknowledged the suitable to decide on a lawyer on the highest degree (Article 35 of the Constitution). Article 48 of the Code of Criminal Procedure defines the time of entry to a lawyer from the start of being taken into custody. Note to Article 48 of the Code of Criminal Procedure handed in 2013 by acknowledges the suitable a lawyer to be current on the stage of preliminary investigation in particular crimes towards inner and exterior safety in addition to organized crimes. This is a crucial step in step with the suitable to have entry to lawyer in all proceedings phases, which has been accepted by the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran and thus no particular person could possibly be disadvantaged of the suitable to have a lawyer within the preliminary stage.
The mission’s allegations relating to the dearth of entry of detained individuals to a lawyer are stuffed with inner contradictions. Although the mission has claimed in paragraph 57 that “the overwhelming majority of detained individuals didn’t have entry to a lawyer throughout the investigation, and those that had entry have been normally denied entry to independently appointed legal professionals in court docket”, in one other paragraph (79) claimed that “… protection legal professionals have been summoned or prosecuted in legal programs in instances related to the protests”. The query is “if the arrested individuals didn’t have entry to a lawyer, how such legal professionals have been summoned or prosecuted?!
13. In paragraph 80 of the report, the mission has claimed that “some legal professionals have been arrested on account of their skilled exercise”.
The mission’s allegation relating to the arrest of legal professionals due to their career is an entire lie. It is critical to notice that there are 130,000 legal professionals working in Iran with none points. No particular person is arrested or prosecuted for participating in a particular career, together with the career of lawyer. If maybe a lawyer can also be arrested, it not due to their career, however in keeping with the legal guidelines and due to the crimes dedicated or their unlawful actions. Therefore, the independence of legal professionals has been considered within the legal guidelines. Also, the authorized invoice on the independence of the Bar Association authorized in 1955 was the expressive will of the legislative physique to ensure the independence of legal professionals. In Article 1 of the Bar Association Independence Bill, the affiliation is outlined as an impartial establishment.
14. In paragraphs of its report, together with (42, 45, 55, 118), the fact-finding mission has made a common and obscure declare of “protesters being tortured, dying on account of torture, judges not being attentive to complaints associated to torture”.
It is deplorable that the mission made a common and obscure declare with out offering proof for verification. Basically, within the authorized system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, torture is prohibited. According to Article 38 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, any torture to extract a confession or data is prohibited. Forcing an individual to testify, confess, or swear is just not allowed, and such testimony, confession, and oath possess no worth and validity, and the violator of this precept will probably be punished in keeping with the legislation. Also, as per Article 578 of the Islamic Penal Code authorized in 2013, “Any judicial or non-judicial authorities worker and official who tortures or bodily harasses an accused particular person in an effort to drive them to admit, along with retribution or cost of compensation, shall be imprisoned from six months to 3 years. If somebody has given an order on this regard, solely the one who gave the order will probably be sentenced to the aforementioned imprisonment. If the accused dies on account of torture and ill-treatment, the agent will probably be punished because the assassin and the enabler will probably be punished because the perpetrator of the homicide”. Therefore, it’s not attainable to acquire a confession from an individual by drive or some other means, and this confession has no authorized foundation. The accused has the suitable to stay silent in entrance of the investigator’s questions, and it’s the investigator who should current their proof that the particular person is responsible.
According to Article 169 of the Islamic Penal Code authorized in 2013, “confessions obtained beneath coercion, duress, torture, or psychological or bodily torture and abuse are nugatory and the court docket is obliged to re-investigate the accused”. Invoking the confession of the defendant is legally legitimate solely when such confessions have been made willingly from any strain and reluctance. Otherwise will probably be acknowledged as missing any validity in keeping with Article 38 of the Constitution and Articles 168 and 169 of the Islamic Penal Code. Also, as per Article 108 of the Executive Regulations of the Organization of Prisons and Security and Educational Measures of authorized in 2021, using any torture and ill-treatment is prohibited: “Committing misbehavior, reminiscent of aggression, derogatory conduct and speech, and any psychological and bodily harassment by the establishment’s staff in the direction of the prisoners is completely prohibited, and because the case could also be, it will possibly result in disciplinary or legal prosecution of the offender”.
15. In different paragraphs of the report (61), (62) and (63), the mission claims “the opportunity of receiving the dying sentence for 100 individuals”, “the issuing of dying sentences for 28 individuals” and “the dearth of observance of truthful proceedings for people who find themselves sentenced to dying for his or her sentences have been executed”.
With the investigations carried out relating to the alleged lists, it was discovered that 30 individuals have obtained jail sentences and 29 individuals have been granted orders of on-suit. Moreover, 6 individuals have been pardoned by the Supreme Leader, 3 individuals have been acquitted and three individuals have been launched on bail. One dying sentence has additionally been overturned within the Supreme Court and been referred to a parallel department for re-examination. Due to failure to supply full data, no data have been retrieved for 8 individuals. The sentence of retribution (Qisas) or capital punishment of 9 individuals has been executed. The crimes dedicated by these individuals are hooked up to this report. 21 individuals have been indicted for committing crimes and their instances have been despatched to the court docket for consideration.
16. The mission claimed in one other paragraph (43) that “the detainees, together with kids, have been injected with unknown substances and didn’t have entry to medical care”.
As defined, a really small variety of individuals beneath the age of 18 have been detained in juvenile correctional facilities for committing crimes reminiscent of property destruction, arson, and so on. On the opposite hand, the mission’s allegation relating to the injection of unknown substances is pure falsehood, and it’s not recognized on what paperwork and proof this baseless declare is based. It is actually regrettable that the mission didn’t make any effort to confirm this allegation prematurely.
In line with Article 137 of the Executive Regulations of the Prisons Organization and Security and Educational Measures authorized in 2021, all people who find themselves stored in detention facilities and prisons, whatever the kind and title of their fees or conviction, have straightforward and fast entry to the jail infirmary and physicians around the clock. Should particular medical amenities and tools in prisons be discovered wanting, inmates could possibly be despatched out of the jail at any hour to pursue their remedy.
17. In paragraph 60, the mission claimed the existence of “a sample of orders to droop prosecution and suspended sentences to create deterrence from protesting or expressing opposition” and said that “the precondition for granting a state amnesty is acceptance of the crime and expression of regret even for individuals who haven’t been convicted of any crime.”
It is deplorable that this political physique has expended all its efforts in reverse illustration of truth and demonizing, to the extent that it analyzes using authorized and judicial leniency potentialities reminiscent of order of non-suit, suspension of punishment and amnesty inside the framework of political targets. It can also be obligatory to say that in any judicial system, one of many circumstances for benefiting from leniency potentialities is to specific regret for committing a criminal offense. Of course, the mission’s declare that harmless individuals have additionally obtained amnesty with the precondition of expressing regret is totally baseless as a result of no harmless particular person has been arrested to be pardoned.
18. The mission has claimed in one other paragraph (76) that “435 college students have been suspended or expelled for taking part in protests” and “greater than 2000 college students have been known as to the disciplinary committee”.
It is unlucky that the so-called fact-finding mission has used anti-Iranian and overseas media sources for this allegation as within the case with different elements of this report. These media have quoted the quantity 435 by quoting a council generally known as the Students’ Union Council, whose nature is just not recognized, and the mission has introduced it as its personal documented and dependable data with none investigation and documentation verification.
19. In paragraph 78 of the report, with a quote from the Minister of Education relating to the change of practically 20,000 college principals, the mission tried to narrate it to the unrest and a few sort of purification bid.
20. In paragraph 72, the mission handled the dying of Miss. Armita Gravand and claimed that “Miss. Gravand went right into a coma following a battle with a feminine hijab-enforcer and subsequently being pushed by the latter in a subway automotive and blames the federal government for failing to research and prosecute the accountable individuals.”
First of all, the dying of Ms. Gravand occurred on October 1, 2023. Therefore, what does it should do with the mandate of the so-called fact-finding mission to research the disturbances of 2022?! Secondly, whereas the mission has introduced on the finish of this paragraph that its investigation into the causes of Miss. Gravand’s dying has not been accomplished and is ongoing, how did it enable itself to make a judgment and hyperlink her dying to being pushed by a the hijab- enforcer within the subway automotive?! Thirdly, on the premise of what doc and proof, the mission makes an allegation that’s in clear contradiction with the express statements of the deceased’s dad and mom, kinfolk, classmates and mates?!
After the accident, Ms. Gravand fell right into a coma, Armita Gravand’s mom, Shaheen Ahmadi, stated, “We have seen all of the Metro motion pictures, the incident that occurred was an accident, and we ask individuals to wish for our daughter’s well being.” Regarding the main points of the accident, Armita’s mom added: “My daughter had made an appointment along with her mates to go to high school in Shohada metro station. After coming into the practice station, she skilled a drop in blood strain whereas boarding, misplaced her steadiness and banged her head on the sting of the subway automotive. Then she was taken out of the practice carriage by her mates. EMS was instantly contacted and minutes later, Armita was rushed to the hospital”. As regards the information jacking of the hostile media and the exploitation of the incident by some opportunists, Armita’s mom remarked “We noticed the images and movies of the subway from the time of arrival to the second of boarding the practice, so the claims made by them are usually not true.” Armita’s father additionally said: “My daughter boarded the practice on Sunday morning with two of her mates at Shohada metro station line 4, when she immediately fainted on account of a drop in strain. They introduced her exterior the practice and after calling the emergency division, they took her to the hospital”. He added: “Together with my spouse, we checked all of the subway movies and it has been confirmed to us that this occasion was simply an accident.”
Fatemeh and Mahla, classmates, shut mates and companions of Armita Gravand, have additionally described what has occurred to Armita solely an incident. They additionally rejected any claims on hijab warning.
Another allegation raised by the mission on this regard is why the movies and footage contained in the subway automotive weren’t revealed. Regarding this allegation, the chief supervisor of Tehran Metro Line 4 explains: “On Sunday, October 1, 2023, Armita Ground entered the subway and the carriage of one of many 134 sequence trains. Immediately after coming into, she hit the bottom as a result of strain drop. After that, she was instantly taken to the platform by our colleagues on the station and the assistance of his mates, after which to the hospital by the EMS. He stated: Tehran metro trains are the previous era 200 sequence, that are purple trains and serve inside line 2, and whereas a sequence of blue 100 sequence trains serve on line 1, that are additionally previous. The previous era AC trains of the 100 sequence (from 121 to 152) are usually not fitted with cameras.
After the incident, in keeping with the order of the Tehran Prosecutor, the Head of Tehran District 27 Prosecutor’s Office was personally despatched to the hospital and numerous individuals, together with her companions and people current on the scene and her household, have been investigated. It was discovered that there was no battle. After Mrs. Gravand’s dying, on October 29, 2023 an entire post-mortem was carried out with the presence of the forensic pathologist. The judicial investigation signifies that her dying was not attributable to trauma or harm, and the difficulty had nothing to do with the hijab.
21. In paragraph (89) of its report, the mission addressed the declare of poisoning of the scholars and claimed that “Poisoning was in all probability finished with the purpose of intimidating the women” And “It is unlikely that college poisonings on such a scale would have taken place with out the intervention of the federal government”.
In order to establish the causes and brokers of those incidents, numerous intelligence, safety, technical, legislation enforcement and laboratory strategies and instruments have been employed. Some outcomes of the official investigation relating to the allegations of poisoning of scholars are as follows:
– Comprehensive and detailed surveillance of the nation’s intelligence and safety forces relating to these incidents point out that poisonous substances haven’t been unfold in any of the nation’s faculties. However, non-poisonous brokers which have triggered panic have been used inadvertently or deliberately in a number of the reported environments.
– There is not any community for the distribution of toxic substances within the nation, however there are lots of networks within the digital house (from inside or exterior the nation) to provide and unfold rumors, to incite school-phobia, to attempt to shut faculties, to immediate dad and mom of scholars to stage protests, to intentionally accuse Islamic Republic of Iran have been tracked down and recognized, and all of them have been prosecuted.
– The position of mass hysteria in lots of the talked about occasions is simple.
– The position of some nations and media in fueling rumors is totally sure and simple.
22. In paragraphs 90 to 97, the mission made baseless allegations about ethnic teams and spiritual minorities and claimed “structural discrimination and grievances of minority teams”, “torture of ethnic or non secular minority prisoners”, and so on.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a pluralistic society with historic cultural and spiritual fusions. For this cause, there are lots of ethnic teams in Iran, and making use of the title of minority to ethnic teams is totally flawed and is completed for political functions. Iranian peoples with totally different languages and dialects reminiscent of Kurds, Baloch, Turks, Arabs, Lors, Fars, and so on., have performed an equal position within the nation’s future, safety and improvement, and throughout the Imposed War, they fought with all their may, defended their nation and gave many martyrs to guard the state.
It is actually regrettable that the board is intentionally making an attempt to create fictitious divisions within the Iranian society and compromise the nationwide unity of Iran by addressing the Kurdish and Baloch who’re Iranian ethnic teams. This is even supposing Iranian Kurds and Baloch are usually not solely not thought of among the many nation’s minorities, however contemplating the variety and ethnic plurality of the nation’s inhabitants, they’re one of many unique and deep-rooted Iranian ethnic teams, which, as evidenced by historical past, have an excellent historical past in have supported the territorial integrity of Iran. While the Kurdish individuals of Iran are shedding their lives as a result of actions of terrorist teams reminiscent of Komala, PJAK, Democrat, and so on., and the Baloch individuals of Iran are struggling as a result of actions of Takfiri terrorist teams primarily based within the jap borders of the nation, as a substitute of condemning terrorist acts, some western nations and human rights political mechanisms stand by these teams and by spreading hatred, wrestle to impress fabricated conflicts among the many individuals of Iran. It is value noting that thus far, a major variety of legislation enforcement forces have been martyred or wounded in operations towards Western-backed terrorist teams in Kurdish and Baloch areas.
23. In paragraph 95, the mission mentioned the incidents in Zahedan and alleged that “the safety forces fired on the residents from the police station in entrance of the prayer corridor with weapons of struggle, which resulted within the dying of 103 worshipers, protesters and passers-by and the harm of 350 individuals”.
Zahedan incident had nothing to do with riots. After the Friday prayer of the Sunni neighborhood was held in Makki Mosque in Zahedan (on Friday, September 30, 2022), quite a few armed individuals attacked the police station adjoining to the place of prayers in a takeover bid. These armed individuals who have been making an attempt to execute a premeditated plot, whereas creating unrest within the metropolis and attacking two different police stations, destroyed and set fireplace to public property. A hearth truck, an EMS station, a number of chain shops and a number of other financial institution branches have been looted and set on fireplace by these armed males. These individuals additionally showered the police station with bullets and threw some Molotov cocktails on the police station. According to the statistics introduced by the related native officers, for the reason that armed attackers had embedded themselves among the many widespread individuals after the Friday prayer, 35 individuals, together with a number of the individuals praying within the mosque and the armed males, misplaced their lives to this terrorist incident. 4 legislation enforcement forces have been additionally killed on this assault.
In continuation of the investigations in addition to the adoption of remedial measures, Hojjatul-Islam “Mohammed Javad Haj Ali Akbari”, the Chair of the Policy-making Council of the Friday Imams of the nation, alongside together with his delegation paid a go to to this province on November 13, 2022 on behalf of the Supreme Leader. He had been tasked with investigating the terrorist incidents that happened in Sistan and Baluchistan province and console the households of these killed or injured within the Zahedan incident. During this journey, the consultant of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution met and talked with the Sunni students, Friday prayers imams of Zahedan, the households of the safety martyrs and the victims of this incident, and mentioned the Leader’s measures to unravel the issues of Sistan and Baluchistan with the elders of the province and numerous teams.
In a gathering with a bunch of main Shia and Sunni students, elders, patriarchs and managers of Sistan and Baluchistan, the consultant of the Supreme Leader stated: The Supreme Leader was upset and anxious in regards to the incident in Zahedan and Sistan and Baluchistan province and ordered an investigation. After experiences have been despatched to the Supreme Leader, he demanded that particular features of the difficulty and paperwork and causes be absolutely investigated. In this assembly, the consultant said that one of many targets of the delegation’s journey to the province is to satisfy with the households of martyrs defending safety and the harmless victims. According to the Supreme Leader’s opinion, individuals who died innocently in Zahedan incidents are acknowledged as martyrs. During this journey, practically 100 individuals who had been arrested within the Zahedan incident and didn’t have community and organizational connections, have been handled with Islamic mercy upon emphasis of the Supreme Leader and the Head of the Judiciary and bought launched.
24. In paragraph 99 of its report, the mission said that “it has established a sample of shutting down the Internet and blocking social media platforms and messaging providers throughout protest occasions and locations.”
After the cross of Miss. Mahsa Amini, protest rallies happened in numerous elements of the nation, which sadly turned from a peaceable state into disturbances and destruction. The quantity of violence and destruction was such that jeopardized the order and safety of the society. Violent agitators and rioters, utilizing the platform of some digital networks, piggybacked the civil protests and diverted them. Us and a few western nations, by harnessing all their amenities and instruments and in a very unconventional transfer and opposite to worldwide requirements, began to step into the fray and supported the rioters by brazenly interfering in Iran’s inner affairs. Other exterior components reminiscent of terrorist outfits and a few satellite tv for pc channels additionally inspired and directed their brokers to take part in these disturbances and supported them within the course of. In this context, two platforms, Instagram and WhatsApp, opposite to their primary rules and circumstances of coping with violent, hateful and extremist content material, didn’t create any restrictions even for terrorist teams, and in reality, they’ve began to advertise the violent and terrorist content material of rioters.
– “For tomorrow, there’s a must implement extra sabotage patterns. Burnt engine oil and diesel will block the way in which of the motorbike detachments and they’re going to fall to the bottom. Also, quick 5-cm hoses which can be attached with screws in a few locations can immobilize police automobiles”.
– “Consider accumulating used tires. Burning tires will entice individuals’s consideration and safe their assist. Pour burnt engine oil or diesel on the trail of police bikes. Fill a nylon bag with oil and throw it a little bit additional within the path of the bikes. Do it. The tires get oily. The bike will probably be ineffective.”
At the identical time as some western nations embarked upon inciting and inspiring riots and terrorist teams have been busy finishing up deliberate violence throughout the riots, the Islamic Republic of Iran began to briefly prohibit two platforms that have been being misused to attain this aim. In this regard, some primary factors are essential:
– The first level is that these restrictions are in accordance with the legal guidelines of the Islamic Republic of Iran in addition to Iran’s worldwide obligations arising from worldwide treaties.
– The second level is that individuals’s entry to the Internet was not blocked by Iran, and all inner and exterior messengers and web sites (besides two networks) have been out there to the general public with none restrictions.
– The third level is that the restrictions on these two networks have been introduced as fully restricted and short-term. As the related officers identified, with the acceptance of Iran’s affordable situation by the managers of those platforms to stick to their primary rules within the subject of stopping the unfold of hatred and violence, such restrictions will probably be eradicated.
– The fourth level is that every one the short-term and authorized restrictions have been utilized in an effort to defend and assure the rights of residents, the safety of society and public order. In this framework, defending the rights of youngsters obtained explicit emphasis in order that they don’t face such violent content material.
25. In paragraph 113 of the report, the mission has claimed that many instances of so-called severe violations of human rights have been dedicated as “crimes towards humanity” in a political method and with out regard to authorized rules.
The Islamic Republic of Iran considers itself dedicated to its related and accepted worldwide obligations, Constitution and the Islamic rules, therefore it considers torture and sexual violence and assault as most heinous and reprehensible crimes. If established, such instances will probably be handled decisively. However, the contents talked about by the mission are just some claims with none risk for verification.
Regarding the declare of compelled disappearance, contemplating that proving such a factor requires detailed data and the mission’s report lacks detailed data on this regard, it’s not attainable to show compelled disappearance. In addition, no dependable report has been obtained relating to this matter. As anybody would anticipate, if there’s correct data on this subject, the federal government welcomes offering this data for evaluation and consideration.
This politically-induced report has been ready whereas the sponsors of this mission are concerned within the all-round sanctions towards the individuals of Iran and in addition the assassination of greater than 17 thousand harmless individuals, which have caused homicide, destruction and crimes towards humanity. Cruel and inhumane sanctions in violation of the suitable to life, the suitable to well being and different elementary rights of ladies and youngsters in Iran have resulted in fully detrimental penalties. For instance, among the many 720 sufferers who died with thalassemia in Iran on account of lack of entry to medication and very important tools from May 2017 onwards, 320 victims have been ladies aged 3 to 30. According to the evaluations, a few of these sufferers have been ladies beneath 10 years previous, whereas another younger moms had younger kids. In the wake of the dying of those moms, a household and their harmless kids have suffered severe psychological and emotional crises. Out of the entire variety of 10,000 thalassemia sufferers who’ve been severely injured on account of not receiving the medication, greater than 5,000 of them are women and girls aged 2 to 35 years. Is this incident nothing however a criminal offense towards humanity?!!!
It is value noting that the Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Right expresses the detrimental impacts of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights in paragraph 63 of her report on her go to to the Islamic Republic of Iran to the 51st session of the Human Rights Council states that “sanctions and ensuing financial pressures undoubtedly have a pronounced gender dimension. Economic sectors historically using girls have been significantly affected, together with manufacturing, handicrafts and household companies, and an rising variety of girls have needed to interact within the casual economic system to make a dwelling and to satisfy the monetary wants of their households within the context of rising inflation. Furthermore, girls’s entrepreneurship, which the Government has supported and inspired in recent times in numerous financial sectors, has additionally been impacted. Several interlocutors additionally raised issues in regards to the precarity of the roughly 3 million femaleheaded households and the vulnerability of the 9 million girls in low-income classes who face difficulties in accessing primary providers, together with well being care. The Government has undertaken measures to make sure the participation of 255,000 feminine heads of households in social and financial empowerment programmes, together with backed employment schemes and enterprise assist and improvement applications”.
Furthermore, in paragraph 81 of her report on her go to to the Islamic Republic of Iran to the 51st session of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures states that” the designation of all Iranian banks and an extended record of firms and nationals lively in numerous financial sectors, together with the pharmaceutical and meals industries, have undermined nationwide efforts in the direction of financial self-sufficiency as a response to the sanctions-induced socioeconomic pressures, have led to decreased State revenues and rising poverty and have exacerbated current socioeconomic inequalities, leading to inadequate assets to ensure the fundamental wants of low-income individuals and different susceptible teams, together with individuals affected by uncommon or extreme ailments, individuals with disabilities, older individuals, migrants and refugees, women-led households and youngsters”. It is unlucky that the so-called fact-finding mission and its founders and sponsors shut their eyes on the crimes towards humanity which can be taking place towards the Iranian nation and as a substitute accuse Iran?!!
More than 30,000 individuals, over 70% of whom are girls and youngsters, have been martyred and greater than 72,000 individuals have been injured in Gaza beneath the extreme bombardment of the Zionist regime. Also, greater than 2 million individuals have been displaced, every of whom will be subjected to essentially the most extreme worldwide crimes; However, no particular mechanism has been established to cope with such crimes as a result of opposition of the nations claiming to be advocates of human rights. In such a scenario, making the false allegation of fee of crimes towards humanity throughout final yr’s riots in Iran constitutes protecting up the crimes of some Western nations and the United States towards the Iranian nation. It additionally serves to divert the attentions from the silence and political agendas of worldwide human rights mechanisms with the last word aim of marginalizing the catastrophic scenario and crimes skilled within the Gaza Strip.
26. In the half associated to immunity and paragraphs “121, 122 and 123”, the mission has claimed that “there was no type of accountability, together with legal investigations relating to allegations of human rights violations and compensation throughout the unrest”.
This allegation was raised whereas the rioters, with the assist of some overseas nations, triggered a whole lot of injury to private and non-private properties and locations, and martyred or injured a major variety of legislation enforcement forces. Nevertheless, with the purpose of defending the rights of its residents, the federal government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has taken intensive measures when it comes to accountability, coping with attainable claims of human rights violations, and compensation for injury incurred.
The precept of compensation is likely one of the rules proposed in all authorized techniques, together with Islamic legislation, being additionally mirrored within the legal guidelines and laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Civil Liability Law authorized in 1960 in its Article 1 gives for cost of damages: “Anyone who, with out receiving authorized clearance, deliberately or recklessly impairs life or well being or property or freedom or private and commerce status or some other proper offered by legislation, inflicting materials or ethical injury to a different particular person within the course of, is answerable for compensation for the injury attributable to their actions. According to the final guidelines of civil legal responsibility, anybody who causes injury to a different will probably be accountable for compensation. Therefore, within the new Code of Criminal Procedure, the federal government’s accountability for the injury attributable to the arrest of harmless defendants is acknowledged, whether or not the accountability is predicated on the fault or error of the choose or different officers. Accordingly, thus far 1,871,427,171,159 Rials has been paid by the related companies in damages to the survivors of the lifeless, injured and wounded.
The investigations of the Special Committee present that the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran dealt with greater than 244 instances of individuals’s complaints towards legislation enforcement officers in reference to the 2022 unrest, with accusations reminiscent of assault and battery, insult, destruction, arrest, homicide, and so on. The related common statistics, primarily based on the newest standing of the instances till February 2024, are as follows:
Pending determination
Sent to the Supreme Court to adjudicate disputes on jurisdiction
Convicted to fines
Sentenced to incarceration
Sentenced to retribution (despatched to the Supreme Court for evaluation)
Acquitted
Order of discontinuance of prosecution
Order of non-suit
61
64
13
19
4
2
1
23
57
In the identical framework, confirming the accountable acts and correct protecting measures adopted by the Iranian authorities throughout final yr’s unrest, the Special Committee to research the unrest of 2022 states: “In common, the outcomes of the particular committee’s investigation affirm that the related authorities establishments, together with the legislation enforcement and safety companies and the judicial system of the Islamic Republic, acted responsibly within the face of the unrest of 2022. Issuing pressing, well timed and decisive directions for legislation enforcement and safety companies to regulate riots with the least quantity of resorting to drive and primarily based on self-restraint, fielding educated forces and appearing primarily based on a code of conduct, the judicial system’s efforts to reduce the variety of instances, widespread amnesty of the accused and convicts associated to the 2022 riots inside the framework of the Supreme Leader’s amnesty decree, dealing with public complaints relating to the conduct of legislation enforcement officers and judicial officers throughout the riots, coping with offenders on account of negligence or fault, cost of economic damages and blood cash to the survivors and heirs of the deceased, cost of damages to the injured, cost of medical bills of the injured, cost to the victims of the unrest of 2022 out of the particular fund of Ministry of Justice, as nicely compensation of harm sustained by private and non-private attributable to unrest within the nation’s provinces are manifestations of this accountability. The investigations of the Special Committee reveal that regardless of some few violations dedicated by some legislation enforcement forces, these violations don’t replicate in any method or method the principled conduct of the federal government and have been attributable to the conduct of a person. In addition, there was the required will to cope with such infractions in legislation enforcement and judicial establishments.”