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GENEVA \u2013<\/strong> Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, has issued a final, comprehensive report<\/a> calling for an international mechanism to investigate and prosecute those responsible for “atrocity crimes” committed in Iran. These crimes include the extrajudicial killing of thousands of arbitrarily arrested prisoners during the 1980s crackdown on political dissent, with particular focus on members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (PMOI\/MEK).<\/p>\n In his report, released in the last days of his six-year mandate, Rehman detailed the widespread and systematic attacks against civilian populations by Iranian authorities between 1979 and 1988. He categorizes these acts as crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, rape, persecution, and enforced disappearances. “The authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran waged a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population pursuant to and in furtherance of a pre-meditated and religiously motivated state policy to exterminate a large part of the political spectrum (representing different ideologies and worldviews) that were perceived as religious enemies of the theocratic rule,” Rehman stated.<\/p>\n The report highlights the extensive and brutal campaigns of mass murder through summary, arbitrary, and extrajudicial executions, imprisonments, torture, rape, and other inhumane acts against tens of thousands of political and religious dissidents. These acts were part of a state policy to suppress perceived enemies of the theocratic rule, encompassing a broad category of citizens including intellectuals, artists, socialists, and members of various political organizations. Members of the PMOI were significantly targeted during this period.<\/p>\n The Special Rapporteur noted that the systematic nature of these attacks is evident from the consistent patterns of arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial executions documented across the country. High-level executive<\/a> and judicial authorities were implicated in orchestrating these campaigns against groups perceived as anti-Islam.<\/p>\n #Iran<\/a> News in Brief — NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) March 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nCrimes Against Humanity<\/h3>\n
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In a recent report published by the United Nations on March 1, @JavaidRehman<\/a> @UN<\/a> Special Rapporteur on the #HumanRights<\/a> situation in Iran, expressed deep concerns regarding the escalating rate of executions in the country. Rehman highlighted that in the latest\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/IncC8vcLfT<\/a><\/p>\n