Forty-three human rights organizations, together with the World Organization Against Torture, are calling on the Human Rights Council to increase the mandates of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (IIFFI) and the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran. This comes towards a backdrop of accelerating assaults on protesters, their households, and civil society.
Since protests started in 2022 following the loss of life of Zina Mahsa Amini, hundreds of individuals, together with kids, have been accused of abusive interrogations, arbitrary detention, and unfair detention for peacefully exercising their human rights. They have confronted prosecution, suspension of schooling and employment, and expulsion. Intelligence and safety companies proceed to focus on the households of these unlawfully killed throughout protests, looking for reality and justice for the murders of their family members. At least 9 folks had been arbitrarily executed in reference to protests following grossly unfair trials. In response, the Human Rights Council established an unbiased worldwide fact-finding mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) to analyze the protests that started on September 16, 2022, and to analyze allegations of human rights violations, notably towards ladies and youngsters. was independently and independently investigated. . In a latest report, FFMI discovered sustained abuses, together with “widespread and systematic abuses towards civilians, ladies, ladies and others who categorical help for human rights… amounting to crimes towards humanity.” It additionally consists of these dedicated as a part of an assault.
Given the essential work of the FFMI and the Special Rapporteur, we name for an extension of the mandate of the FFMI and a renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur.