Last Friday, the Human Rights Council approved a German resolution to investigate the actions of the security forces since the outbreak of the protests last September.
Tehran does not recognize any legitimacy to the independent committee that the United Nations Human Rights Council approved last week to delve into the events that have occurred in its country since last September. It was announced this Monday by his Foreign Affairs spokesman, Nasser Kanani, who also condemned the “hasty use of human rights mechanisms” with, in his opinion, “political intentions”. The UN mission has as its central objective the action of the Iranian security apparatus.
“Iran will not cooperate with this commission politicized under the title of investigative mission,” Kanani said in front of the journalist. “In the framework of its national responsibilities, the Islamic Republic has formed a national committee with the presence of experts, deputies and official and unofficial representatives, understanding that it is its national responsibility,” added the spokesperson, in words collected by the semi-official agency. Mehr.
Iran has experienced one of the largest waves of protests recorded in the country in just over four decades under the current system. opposition organizations estimated at 416, including 51 minors, the dead since the middle of last September, when the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini was confirmed. Although the vast majority of victims are participants in the protests, clashes with armed groups have left the security forces dead.
Last Friday, the Human Rights Council approved with 25 votes in favor, six against -among them those of Armenia, Venezuela and Pakistan- and 15 abstentions a German resolution to investigate the actions of the security forces. During the meeting, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Trk, pointed to “the Revolutionary Guard and the Basiyes forces” as responsible for using “live ammunition, pellets and other pieces of metal, as well as tear gas and batons”. to suppress the protests, concentrated in the main cities and led mostly by young people.
Although during the first weeks the peaceful expressions of rejection of the authorities predominated, demanding more freedom in the public space, an end to the mandatory veil policy or economic improvements, the harsh response of the forces of order has contributed to the rise of the violence. In the Kurdish-majority western region, armed clashes have turned some cities into battlefields. Iran accuses the foreign “enemy”, mainly the US and Saudi Arabia, of instigating violent actions against its territory.
Meanwhile, thousands of protesters arrested these weeks, including activists, artists and journalists, remain in jail. According to the Iranian news agency Mizan, the Judiciary, which promised to quickly render accounts with the detainees, issued the first death sentence in the middle of this month, someone accused of “war on God” for participating in the burning of an official building. An unknown number of other defendants, including a well-known rapper, face similar charges, including “corruption on Earth.”
According to a law professor in Tehran, ten minors under the age of 18 are among those who will sit before a Revolutionary Court judge on such charges, which under current law could lead to hanging. The opposition to the authorities does not come, however, only from the street. An opposition organization has shared in the last hours a video of Farideh Moradjani, an activist niece of the Iranian Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei. Her posting coincided with news of her arrest last week. In the recording, Moradjani asks the international community to break ties with the Iranian government, which it accuses of “child murderers”.
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George is Digismak’s reported cum editor with 13 years of experience in Journalism