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Amnesty – Responding to today’s announcement that the UN Human Rights Council has passed a landmark resolution to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in Iran related to the protests that began on 16 September 2022, especially with respect to women and children, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said:  “This important and long overdue step shows …

RFL/RE – Australia and the Netherlands have confirmed the arrests of dual nationals in Iran and say the detainees have been denied consular access. A spokesperson for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs on November 24 said an Iranian-Australian had been detained, though not for participating in protests over the death of a young woman while in police custody for allegedly …

RFL/RE – A prominent Iranian human rights advocate incarcerated in the notorious Evin prison has published a letter saying that Iran’s authoritarian theocracy has prevented people from achieving their rights, including democracy and freedom, and a normal relationship with the world. Narges Mohammadi sent the letter on November 23 to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), whose mission is to …

Iranwire – Two members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) were killed in the northwestern province of Kurdistan overnight, activists say, amid a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests. According to the Norway-based Human Rights Organization, unidentified armed men killed one IRGC member in the city of Marivan. The Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw said another member of the …

VOA – U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk urged Iranian authorities to halt “unnecessary and disproportionate” use of force against protesters. Speaking at a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, Turk said Iran was in a “full-fledged human rights crisis.” Turk expressed his support for an investigation into Iran’s crackdown against protests that began two …