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Thursday, April 4, 2024
UN rights council votes to extend probe into Iran crackdown on protests by a year
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The UN Human Rights Council prolongs by a year an independent international fact-finding mission investigating Iran’s deadly crackdown on protests that erupted in 2022.
The United Nations’ top rights body extended the mission, and the mandate of the council’s special rapporteur on Iran, Javaid Rehman, with 24 votes in favor, eight against and 15 abstentions in the 47-member chamber.
It says the extension for Rehman was necessary to “continue to monitor the ongoing situation of human rights, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.”
It also decides to keep up the fact-finding mission to allow it to complete its work, “including by ensuring that the large amount of evidence of human rights violations” relating to the protests, “especially with respect to women and children, is fully and effectively documented, verified, consolidated and preserved.”
Iran was rocked by widespread demonstrations sparked by the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who had been arrested for allegedly violating the strict dress rule for women based on Islamic sharia law.
Tehran does not cooperate with either Rehman or the fact-finding mission and they have not been allowed on Iranian soil.
The Times of Israel Community.