4 Years Since Mahsa Amini's Death Ignited Protests in Iran for Women's Rights, Amnesty Report Unveils Findings
Amnesty says security forces killed hundreds, tortured detainees and targeted Kurdish and Baluchi communities in a state-led crackdown, identifying 87 officials for investigation.
- On Wednesday, Amnesty International released a report detailing how Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during the 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising, using state-sanctioned lethal force to crush nationwide protests.
- Investigators identified 87 officials, including 62 security force commanders from the IRGC and FARAJA, who should face criminal investigation for implementing state policies authorizing deadly protest dispersals.
- Kurdish and Baluchi communities disproportionately suffered a 'devastating share' of 377 recorded deaths, including 56 children, during the 2022 crackdown, according to Amnesty's findings.
- Raha Bahreini, Amnesty International's Iran researcher in London, told CBC News that global inaction "effectively signals" authorities can commit crimes with absolute impunity, urging the UN General Assembly to establish an international criminal justice mechanism.
- While authorities crushed street protests, the report notes they failed to eliminate the spirit of resistance; civil disobedience is now practiced "courageously" despite the same officials continuing to lead violent crackdowns today.
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The brutality of the Iranian regime has been unheard of. It is its systematic character, and the total impunity that it enjoys, that are worrying. ...
Amnesty International has presented a more than a thousand-page report on the repression of protests in Iran, concerning the violent action against the "Women's Life-Freedom" movement four years ago.
In a report of more than 1,000 pages, Amnesty International documents killings, torture, rape and enforced disappearances perpetrated by the Iranian authorities, including children, since the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022. The NGO calls into question 87 Iranian officials, including the current leader of the Revolutionary Guards, Ahmad Vahidi, for "crimes against humanity" during the repression of the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement.
“Respond mercilessly even to death.” That order, which appears in an official Iranian document that Amnesty International acceded to, was the one that the Islamic Republic of Iran conveyed to the security forces that in September 2022 they took to the streets of the country to crush protests chanting a beautiful slogan of Kurdish origin: “Woman, life, freedom.” On 16 September, a 22-year-old Kurdish girl, Yina Mahsa Amini, had died in a police s…
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BTNew report from Amnesty International accuses Iranian authorities of violent abuses during the 2022 protests.
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Amnesty International states that at least 87 Iranian officials committed crimes against humanity during protests four years ago in Iran. Hundreds of people died during the so-called ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ demonstrations.
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