{"id":16760,"date":"2024-03-10T00:50:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T00:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/irans-repression-of-protesters-and-women-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity-un-report-says\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T00:50:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T00:50:18","slug":"irans-repression-of-protesters-and-women-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity-un-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/irans-repression-of-protesters-and-women-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity-un-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s repression of protesters and women amounts to \u2018crimes against humanity,\u2019 UN report says"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran\u2019s \u201crepression of peaceful protests\u201d and \u201cinstitutional discrimination against women and girls\u201d has led to human rights violations, some of which amount to \u201ccrimes against humanity,\u201d according to a United Nations\u2019 report. <\/p>\n

Such violations and crimes include \u201cextrajudicial and unlawful killings and murder, unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, enforced disappearances, and gender persecution,\u201d the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a\u00a0press release\u00a0Friday. <\/p>\n

It cited a report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran, a task force set up by the UN Human Rights Council to look at claims of deteriorating human rights conditions in Iran. <\/p>\n

The report said these violations came about in the context of the \u201cWoman, Life, Freedom\u201d protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022 after she was arrested for allegedly not observing Iran\u2019s mandatory hijab law. <\/p>\n

She became the face of women calling for greater rights and freedoms curtailed since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Protests erupted across Iran again in September last year on the first anniversary of her death. <\/p>\n

The mission said it found that physical violence while in custody of the morality police, a unit dedicated to enforcing strict dress codes for women, such as wearing the compulsory headscarf, led to Mahsa Amini\u2019s \u201cunlawful death.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cRather than investigating this unlawful death promptly, effectively, and thoroughly \u2013 as required under international human rights law \u2013 the government actively obfuscated the truth, and denied justice,\u201d the UN press release read. <\/p>\n

In a government crackdown against the country-wide protests, Iran mobilized \u201cthe entire security apparatus of the state to repress\u201d protesters, the UN Office said, adding that as many as 551 protesters are thought to have been killed by security forces, among them at least 49 women and 68 children. <\/p>\n

The UN report found that state authorities at the highest levels \u201cencouraged, sanctioned and endorsed human rights violations through statements justifying the acts and conduct of the security forces.\u201d <\/p>\n

Authorities in Iran have also obstructed repatriation efforts of victims and their families, the UN said the mission found, adding that victims face a justice system lacking \u201cindependence, transparency and accountability.\u201d <\/p>\n

Chair of the Fact-Finding Mission Sara Hossain urged Iran\u2019s government to stop repressing peaceful protesters, particularly women and girls. <\/p>\n

\u201cThese acts form part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against the civilian population in Iran, namely against women, girls, boys and men who have demanded freedom, equality, dignity and accountability,\u201d she said, according to the OHCHR. <\/p>\n\n

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Iran\u2019s \u201crepression of peaceful protests\u201d and \u201cinstitutional discrimination against women and girls\u201d has led to human rights violations, some of which amount to \u201ccrimes against humanity,\u201d according to a United Nations\u2019 report. Such violations and crimes include \u201cextrajudicial and unlawful killings and murder, unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}