Iran International: One year ago, the Islamic Republic’s security forces violently suppressed Iran’s most widespread protest demonstrations ever. The protests took place across 30 of Iran’s 31 provinces and the crackdown was the bloodiest of its kind in four decades. The government never announced the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMVdVeBMVRY&t=59s Widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care Hundreds subjected to grossly unfair trials on baseless national security charges Death sentences issued based on torture-tainted “confessions” Iran’s police,
In Meshkindasht-Karaj, Basij forces shot at protestors on the ground, from the rooftops of the Basij Base. On November 15th, 2019, following a sudden spike in fuel prices, nationwide protests broke out across Iran. While the protests were largely peaceful, in certain cities some banks,
An investigation by Amnesty International has uncovered evidence that at least 23 children were killed by Iranian security forces in the nationwide protests in November last year. At least 22 of the children were shot dead by Iranian security forces unlawfully firing live ammunition at
Center for Human Rights in Iran: February 10, 2020 – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements and held in inhumane incarceration conditions, and their families are not being informed of their whereabouts and
The Tribunal’s launch was officially announced on the anniversary of the atrocities (15-17 November 2020). The hearings will be held from 10-14th November 2021 in London, with the Tribunal’s Judgment to be announced in early 2022.