Amnesty: Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022
The report says security forces killed 377 protesters and bystanders, including 56 children, and identified 87 officials for criminal 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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Iranian security forces carried out coordinated killings, torture and sexual abuse of hundreds of protesters during nationwide protests in September 2022, according to a new report by Amnesty International, based on leaked government documents and interviews with protesters, mostly Iranian women.
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cedarnews.netFour years ago, a young Kurdish woman died after being arrested by the moral police in Iran, followed by nationwide protests. Women have since won small free spaces - but the repression has intensified further. By Antonia Ruller.
Four years after the suppression of the women's-life-free movement in Iran, Amnesty International urges the Federal Attorney General to investigate the perpetrators.
The NGO refers to the murders, arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of demonstrators who protested after the death of Mahsa Amini as crimes against humanity.
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