Crimes towards humanity uncovered by fact-finding mission on Iran’s first report
March 18, 2024 – A coalition of worldwide human rights establishments, together with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), has launched an pressing normal attraction to UN Human Rights Council (HRC) member states to assist the renewal of the mandate. Extend the time period of the UN Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Islamic Republic of Iran and lengthen the mandate of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI) through the present fifty fifth session of the HRC.
In a joint assertion signed by 43 worldwide non-governmental organizations, the Security Council wants to meet each its mandates to be able to full its mandate and examine crimes dedicated within the context of the violent repression by the Islamic Republic. It was emphasised that updating is crucial. “Women, Life, Freedom” motion.
These organizations additionally referred to as on HRC members to sentence the intense and chronic human rights violations in Iran.
As FFMI highlighted in its preliminary report, these violations are characterised as crimes towards humanity. These assaults are a part of a widespread and systematic assault on civilians, notably girls, women, and human rights advocates.
The attraction seeks an finish to those violations and seeks justice, fact, and reparations.
The full textual content of the letter and checklist of signatories might be discovered under.
March 18, 2024
TO: Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Your Honor,
We, the undersigned Iranian and worldwide human rights organizations, request your nation to resume the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Islamic Republic of Iran and the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the scenario of human rights within the Islamic Republic of Iran. We urge you to assist the extension of . The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) speaks on the fifty fifth session of the Human Rights Council. Continuing these two distinct and complementary missions is crucial for the Security Council to meet its mandate to advertise and shield human rights in Iran.
We additionally name in your authorities to make use of this chance to publicly sound the alarm on the gross and chronic human rights violations dedicated on this nation. Some of those, the FFMI decided, “consisted of crimes towards humanity…dedicated as a part of a widespread and systematic assault.” To civilians: girls, women and others who categorical assist for human rights.”[1]And we demand an finish to those violations and demand justice, fact, and reparations.
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At this convention, the Security Council will as soon as once more be introduced with a wealth of proof demonstrating the persevering with disaster of systemic impunity, whereby crimes underneath worldwide regulation and different human rights violations go unpunished inside nations. These embrace widespread violations of the suitable to life, the suitable to be free from torture and different ill-treatment, the safety and liberty of individuals, honest trials, efficient treatments, and freedom of faith, perception, and expression. The rights to peaceable meeting and affiliation, the rights to privateness, well being, schooling, livelihood, and work, as detailed within the appendix to this letter.
Women and women proceed to be handled as second-class residents amid a rising crackdown on violations of degrading and abusive obligatory veiling legal guidelines. Lesbian, homosexual, bi, transgender, and intersex folks, in addition to ethnic and non secular minorities, are additionally topic to systematic discrimination. Targets embrace Ahwazi Arabs, Azerbaijani Turks, Baluchis, Kurds, and Turkmens. An individual who belongs to a spiritual or persuasive minority, comparable to Baha’is, Christians, Gonabadi Dervishes, Jews, Yarsanis (Ahl-e-Haq), Sunni Muslims, and atheists.
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FFMI’s mandate to deal with violations dedicated through the 2022 nationwide protests, with a specific deal with girls and kids, established following the custodial dying of Zina Mahusa Amini stays necessary. Not solely do violations associated to the 2022 protests proceed to reverberate inside Iran, however this obligation additionally performs an necessary position in addressing the impunity that fuels these and different human rights abuses. There is.
As famous above, crimes underneath worldwide regulation associated to the 2022 protests proceed. Thousands of individuals, together with youngsters, have been subjected to abusive interrogation, arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, suspension of schooling or employment, or expulsion for peacefully exercising their human rights. Intelligence and safety companies proceed to focus on households of these unlawfully killed throughout protests, in search of fact and justice for the murders of their family members. At least 9 folks have been arbitrarily executed in reference to protests following grossly unfair trials. In January 2024, UN specialists strongly condemned the execution of Mohammad Ghobadr and mentioned that at the least 4 folks reportedly stay at imminent danger of execution in reference to nationwide protests. , famous that at the least 15 of the remaining folks might face the dying penalty.[2]. Meanwhile, impunity continues, with an neutral, impartial and efficient No home investigation has been performed.
As the Council emphasised in a decision final 12 months, “persistent and systematic impunity for gross human rights violations and a scarcity of accountability… creates a positive setting for perpetrators and for victims to obtain efficient redress.” violates folks’s rights and perpetuates a cycle of violence.”[5]. This widespread scenario of human rights violations and impunity for worldwide crimes should be addressed to forestall previous patterns of violations from being repeated sooner or later. Only impartial regulation enforcement companies with the suitable assets, personnel and time can adequately deal with this basic problem. It is evident that FFMI has an necessary position to play on this regard.
In line with its mission, FFMI locations the scenario of girls and women on the heart of its analysis. The report concluded that crimes towards humanity – gender-based persecution – have been being dedicated and that “widespread and deep-seated structural and institutionalized discrimination towards girls and women permeates all spheres of private and non-private life.” .[6] In Iran, it’s each a “set off and enabler” of the violations and crimes that Iran has established. If FFMI’s mandate is prolonged, will probably be in a position to analyze in additional depth the gender dimensions of recorded human rights violations and crimes.
Despite delays within the operational course of and budgetary challenges exterior its jurisdiction, FFMI has made important progress in investigating violations dedicated in reference to the protests. However, as famous above, gaps stay and FFMI requires extra time and sufficient assets to course of the numerous quantity of proof collected. With extra time, FFMI will deal with any remaining gaps in its findings earlier than submitting its ultimate report and search justice, fact, and reparations for grave human rights violations and crimes underneath worldwide regulation by Iranian officers. might additional promote this path. This will be certain that the voices of survivors, victims and their households are heard as they share their testimonies and take part in establishing fact and justice.
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Abdulrahman Bormand Iranian Human Rights Center (ABC) Human Rights Defenders Ahvaz Human Rights Group Rights of All in Iran Amnesty International Arse Sebom Article 18 Article 19 Iran-Azerbaijan People’s Human Rights Association (AHRAZ) Baloch Activist Campaign Balochistan Human Rights Group Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHRS) Iranian Center for Human Rights Center for Human Rights Defenders (CSHR) Ensemble Contre la Peine de Morte (ECPM) Femena Frontline Defenders Global Responsibility Center Harm Reduction Protection International Hengo Human Rights Organization Human Rights Institute Rights Watch Impact International Bar Association of Iran Human Rights Research Institute (IBAHRI) International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) Iranian Human Rights and Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) Justice for Iran Kurdistan Human Rights Association – Geneva (KMMK-G) Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) Kurdistan Human Rights Organization Mian Group Minority Rights Group International Outright Action International PEN America Saimak Pourzand Foundation (SPF) United for Iran UNPO – Representative States and People’s Organizations Without Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) World Coalition Against the Death Penalty World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) 6Rang – Lesbian and Transgender Network in Iran
[1] Report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran, A/HRC/55/67, 2 February 2024 (FFM Report), para. 1. 108, accessible from https://undocs.org/A/HRC/55/67
[2] https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/un-experts-urge-iran-respect-international-law-and-stop-horrific-executions
[3] FFM report, para. 124
[4] FFM report, para. 116
[5] Resolution A/HRC/RES/52/27, Human Rights Situation within the Islamic Republic of Iran, 13 April 2023, PP5, accessible at https://undocs.org/A/HRC/RES/52/27
[6] FFM report, para. 122
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