Amnesty International has presented in London an extensive document in which it identifies up to 87 senior Iranian officials who should be investigated for crimes against humanity, in addition to bringing to light the chain of command responsible for applying the state policy of using lethal force to quell citizen protests. A new report that concludes that Iranian authorities directed their repression – disproportionately – against the Kurdish and Baloch communities.
The organization denounces all types of atrocities with intentional impunity
The authors of the report assure that it is more than demonstrated that impunity for serious human rights violations by the Tehran regime has been and continues to be “systemic and intentional.” For this reason, they demand that the architects of the crimes committed in Iran to repress the protests appear before international justice in order to prevent new massacres. And they ask the United Nations General Assembly to create and implement an international criminal justice mechanism to combat impunity for systematic murders in the country.
The investigation, of more than 1,000 pages, offers exhaustive details about the murders, torture, arbitrary detentions, rapes or persecution for political, ethnic, religious or gender reasons committed in recent years by the ayatollah regime with the sole objective of quelling street protests. And it documents how Iranian security forces are equipped with military-grade firearms and shotguns loaded with metal pellets.
The Secretary General of Amnesty International, Agnès Callamard, warns that the abundant evidence collected and analyzed in the report leaves no room for doubt: “Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity to quell the Women, Life, Freedom uprising of 2022.” And it denounces that “they launched a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population that demanded dignity, human rights and fundamental political change, in accordance with a state policy of using lethal force to annihilate dissent.”
This new report from Amnesty International coincides with the fourth anniversary of the murder of the young Mahsa Amini at the hands of the so-called “morality police”.
