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Amnesty – As part of a violent and deadly crackdown, Iran’s authorities have been arbitrarily arresting thousands of protesters who are now at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Act now and call for those arbitrarily arrested to be released.
In November 2019, nationwide protests were sparked in Iran after the government announced a huge rise in petrol prices. Security forces crushed the protests using lethal force, shooting and killing scores – probably hundreds – of people, including children, and injuring thousands of others.
The authorities have arrested thousands of protesters as well as journalists, students and human rights defenders to stop them from speaking out about Iran’s ruthless repression. Children as young as 15 have been arrested and detained alongside adults in prisons notorious for torture. Detainees have been subjected to torture and other ill-treatment; they have been beaten, punched, kicked and flogged by security forces. Many are being denied access to their families and lawyers.
Victims and eyewitnesses have said security forces have raided hospitals and medical centres across the country, arresting injured protesters and transferring them to detention centres, thus denying them access to potentially life-saving medical care.
The Iranian authorities must not be allowed to continue with this brutal campaign of repression.
Sign the petition and demand the release of those arbitrarily detained in Iran
Take action now to call on Iran’s head of judiciary to protect detainees from torture and other ill-treatment, immediately and unconditionally release all those detained arbitrarily, and ensure that UN experts are given immediate access to detention centres and prisons and to families of those killed and arrested in order to conduct fact-finding investigations.
