UPDATES: #IranProtests2022 --- UN Human Rights Council Approves Investigation of Regime Crackdown
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UPDATES: #IranProtests2022 --- UN Human Rights Council Approves Investigation of Regime Crackdown
Activist #HosseinRonaghi released on bail to receive medical treatment after fears for his life amid 2-month hunger strike in prison
But sports journo Mehdi Amirpour detained amid regime concern of solidarity by athletes w #IranProtests2022
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#SS35 | @UN Human Rights Council Establishes Fact-finding Mission to Investigate Alleged #HumanRights Violations in #Iran Related to the Protests that Began on 16 September 2022.
READ @UNGeneva's meeting summary ➡️https://bit.ly/3i9Vb9c
The Human Rights Council this afternoon established an independent, international fact-finding mission to thoroughly and independently investigate alleged human rights violations in Iran related to the protests that began on 16 September 2022. The Council then closed its special session on the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.
This report, authored by the Free Nazanin Campaign and REDRESS, draws in part from detailed testimonies from 26 victims of hostage-taking or their family members, who shared their experiences from their initial detention and interrogation through illegitimate legal proceedings, abuses suffered during imprisonment, false and abusive propaganda by the regime, and their use as “diplomatic assets”.
This report, authored by the Free Nazanin Campaign and REDRESS, details for the first time the systematic pattern of human rights abuses committed through Iran’s hostage-taking practice. The report draws in part from detailed testimonies from 26 victims of hostage-taking or their family members, who shared their experiences from their initial detention and interrogation through illegitimate legal proceedings, abuses suffered during imprisonment, false and abusive propaganda by the regime, and their use as “diplomatic assets”.
Iranian security forces on Thursday arrested national football player Voria Ghafouri over accusations that he spread "propaganda" against the Islamic republic, Fars news agency reported #Iran