The month of March saw a milestone session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva with regards to the violations of human rights in Iran, in addition to several reports by human rights organizations shedding light on the Iranian regime’s crimes against humanity and violations of the rights of Iranian women and girls.
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights violations in Iran, Professor Javaid Rehman, reached significant conclusions at the end of his six-year mandate indicating the need for international investigations into the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. In his report to the Human Rights Council, he urged the international community to call for accountability with respect to long-standing emblematic events that have been met with persistent impunity, including the enforced disappearances and summary and arbitrary executions of 1981 and 1988 and the protests of November 2019.
The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, appointed in November 2022 by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate violations of human rights during Iran protests, also submitted its first report stating, “The violent repression of peaceful protests and pervasive institutional discrimination against women and girls has led to serious human rights violations by the Government of Iran, many amounting to CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.”
The FFM found the Iranian regime responsible for the death of Mahsa Jina Amini in the custody of the morality police.
The month of March saw a milestone session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva with regards to the violations of human rights in Iran, in addition to several reports by human rights organizations shedding light on the Iranian regime’s crimes against humanity and violations of the rights of Iranian women and girls.
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights violations in Iran, Professor Javaid Rehman, reached significant conclusions at the end of his six-year mandate indicating the need for international investigations into the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. In his report to the Human Rights Council, he urged the international community to call for accountability with respect to long-standing emblematic events that have been met with persistent impunity, including the enforced disappearances and summary and arbitrary executions of 1981 and 1988 and the protests of November 2019.
The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, appointed in November 2022 by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate violations of human rights during Iran protests, also submitted its first report stating, “The violent repression of peaceful protests and pervasive institutional discrimination against women and girls has led to serious human rights violations by the Government of Iran, many amounting to CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.”
The FFM found the Iranian regime responsible for the death of Mahsa Jina Amini in the custody of the morality police.