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HRC Press Conference: Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran - 14 March 2025

Iran protests: Human Rights Council probe condemns surveillance repression

The Iranian Government has continued to ramp up efforts to restrict the rights of civilians including young children as part of a concerted effort to crush dissent, investigators mandated by the Human Rights Council insisted on Friday.

In their latest and final report, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran alleged ongoing serious rights violations by the Iranian authorities stemming from massive protests after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September 2022.

Ms. Amini, from the Iranian Kurdish community, had been arrested by the country’s “morality police” for allegedly not complying with rules around wearing the hijab.

“In repressing the 2022 nationwide protests, State authorities in Iran committed gross human rights violations, some of which the Mission found to have amounted to crimes against humanity,” said Sara Hossain, Chair of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission. “We heard many harrowing accounts of harsh physical and psychological torture and a wide range of serious fair trial and due process violations committed against children, including some as young as seven years old.”

Since April 2024, the State has increased criminal prosecution against women who defy the mandatory hijab through the adoption of the so-called “Noor plan.”

“Women human rights defenders and activists have continued to face criminal sanctions, including fines, lengthy prison sentences, and in some cases the death penalty for peaceful activities in support of human rights,” the Mission asserted.

Speaking in Geneva on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council, Ms. Hossain noted that Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities “had been specially targeted in the context of the protests”, with “some of the most egregious violations…carried out in peak protest towns in minority-populated regions”.

Testimonies gathered inside and outside Iran for the report which has been shared with the Iranian Government pointed to men, women and children being held “in some cases at gunpoint” with “nooses put around their necks in a form of psychological torture”.

The Mission – which comprises senior human rights experts acting in an independent capacity – noted that these measures “come despite pre-election assurances” by President Masoud Pezeshkian to ease the strict enforcement of mandatory hijab laws.

This enforcement increasingly relies on technology, surveillance and even State-sponsored “vigilantism”, the investigators maintained.

“Surveillance online was a critical tool for State repression. Instagram accounts, for instance, were shut down and SIM cards confiscated in particular of human rights defenders, including women, human rights defenders,” explained Shaheen Sardar Ali from the Mission.

Ms. Ali pointed to the use of the “Nazer” mobile application “which is a particular app that the Government has instituted, where after vetting, normal citizens can also complain - file a complaint - against someone who's just passed by and hasn't got the mandatory hijab. So, this technology that's being used for surveillance is really very far-reaching and highly intrusive.”

According to the Fact-Finding Mission, 10 men have been executed in the context of the 2022 protests and at least 11 men and three women remain at risk of being executed, amid “serious concerns over the adherence to the right to a fair trial, including the use of torture tainted confessions, and due process violations”.

The Mission’s report will be presented to Member States at the Human Rights Council next Tuesday.

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STORY: Iran – Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran

TRT: 03:12”

SOURCE: UNTV CH

RESTRICTIONS: NONE

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

ASPECT RATIO: 16:9

DATELINE: 14 March 2025 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Speakers:

  • Sara Hossain, Chair of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission
  • Shaheen Sardar Ali, Expert Member of the Fact-Finding Mission

SHOTLIST

  1. Exterior medium shot: Palais des Nations, Flag Alley.
  2. Wide shot of the Fact-Finding Mission on the podium at UN Geneva.
  3. SOUNDBITE (English) – Sara Hossain, Chair of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission: “Our report set out a road map on truth, accountability, justice and reparations. They include our consolidated findings from two years of investigations. These reaffirm that in repressing the 2022 nationwide protests, State authorities in Iran committed gross human rights violations, some of which the Mission found to have amounted to crimes against humanity.”
  4. Medium shot of podium speakers, photographer.
  5. SOUNDBITE (English) – Sara Hossain, Chair of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission: “We gathered evidence of unnecessary and unlawful use of force against children, both girls and boys, and we heard many harrowing accounts of harsh physical and psychological torture and a wide range of serious fair trial and due process violations committed against children, including some as young as seven years old.”
  6. Medium-wide, Press room, TV screens with speaker, control booths.
  7. SOUNDBITE (English) – Sara Hossain, Chair of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission: “We also deepened our investigations into the situation of ethnic and religious minorities, finding that they had been specially targeted in the context of the protests and that some of the most egregious violations were carried out in peak protest towns in minority-populated regions.”
  8. Medium-wide, speakers, journalists, participants.
  9. SOUNDBITE (English) – Sara Hossain, Chair of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission: “We found that detainees - men, women and children - had been held, in some cases at gunpoint, or had nooses put around their necks in a form of psychological torture.”
  10. Medium-wide, Press room, podium speakers, TV screens showing speaker.
  11. SOUNDBITE (English) – Shaheen Sardar Ali, Expert Member of the Fact-Finding Mission: “Surveillance online was a critical tool for State repression. Instagram accounts, for instance, were shut down and SIM cards confiscated in particular of human rights defenders, including women, human rights defenders.”
  12. Medium-wide, Press room, participants, journalists, TV screens showing speaker.
  13. SOUNDBITE (English) – Shaheen Sardar Ali, Expert Member of the Fact-Finding Mission: “We found an alarming pattern of systematic repression and silencing of victims and their families, including through summons, detentions and prosecutions, and preventing them from commemorating the deaths of their loved ones with violence escalating during the anniversary of the protests, both in 2023 and 2024.”
  14. Medium-wide, Press room, participants, journalists, TV screens showing speaker.
  15. SOUNDBITE (English) – Shaheen Sardar Ali, Expert Member of the Fact-Finding Mission: “Persecutory conduct extends to those who have acted in solidarity, such as human rights defenders, lawyers, teachers, trade unionists and journalists, compelling many to leave Iran.”
  16. Medium, podium speakers, participants, photographer, TV screen showing speaker.
  17. SOUNDBITE (English) – Shaheen Sardar Ali, Expert Member of the Fact-Finding Mission: “Nazer app, which is a particular app that the Government has instituted, where after vetting, sort of normal citizens can also complain - file a complaint - against someone who's just passed by and hasn't got the mandatory hijab. So this technology that's being used for surveillance is really very far reaching and highly intrusive.”
  18. Medium, photographer.
  19. Medium-wide, photographer, participants, journalists.
  20. Medium, photographer.


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