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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Four years after the bloody repression of the uprising, the NGO reveals in its latest report the responsibility of a command structure in the crushing of demonstrations, and identifies 87 Iranian leaders who should be investigated for crimes against humanity.
Amnesty International names 87 Iranian officials for crimes against humanity in 2022 crackdown
Amnesty International named 87 Iranian security and interior ministry officials Wednesday who it says should face criminal investigation for crimes against humanity committed during the 2022 crackdown on the Woman Life Freedom protests, and urged the UN Security Council to refer Iran’s situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) The 1,161-page report, titled “Architects of Atrocities,” documents 377 fatalities among protesters and bystan…
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.
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