The tragic events unfolding since 16 September were taking place against a backdrop of “exponentially increasing” violations of human rights in Iran, Mr. Surge in executions and targeting of minorities He said the authorities recently recognized that over 22,000 people had been arrested, amid an attempt to shut down “all avenues of freedom of expression”, through Internet disruptions and social media censorship. Rehman said that Iranian security forces had fired live ammunition at unarmed protesters, and that some protesters, including children, were beaten to death. Painting a detailed picture of the crackdown, Mr. More than 520 people, including 71 children, were killed in the protests, and hundreds more injured. Turning to the repression with which the wave of protests was met by the Iranian authorities since last September, the expert expressed outrage at the execution of at least four persons “after arbitrary, summary, and sham trials marred by torture allegations”, and the sentencing to death of a further 17 people. Rehman, and other UN Human Rights Council-appointed rights experts, work on a voluntary and unpaid basis, are not UN staff, and work independently from any government or organization.ĭemonstrators in Sweden call for justice after the death of Masha Amini in custody of the "morality police" in Iran. Rehman underscored that these attacks were “until recently denied by the Government”. Rehman, condemning the “deliberate poisoning of more than 1,200 schoolgirls in Iran’s major cities” in gas attacks, and “the State’s failure to protect them”. The report comes hot on the heels of a statement by several independent UN-appointed rights experts, including Mr. Amini’s death was “not an isolated event”, he said, but rather “the latest in a long series of extreme violence against women and girls committed by the Iranian authorities”.
Amini’s death that were “neither credible nor transparent”, underscoring that the perpetrators were not held accountable. The expert slammed “so-called” investigations of Ms.
Rehman said that the “scale and gravity” of violations committed by Iranian authorities pointed to “the possible commission of international crimes, notably the crimes against humanity of murder, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, torture, rape and sexual violence, and persecution”. Presenting his report to the Human Rights Council, Mr.
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