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The
death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September 2022 while in the
custody of the country's morality police unleashed a wave of
mass protests across Iran, marking the biggest challenge to its
clerical leaders in decades.
Since then, several people have been hanged for participating in
the unrest, which Iran's leaders have accused the country's
Western enemies of fomenting.
"We call on the Iranian authorities to stop the executions of
individuals convicted and sentenced to death in connection with
the protests and reiterate our requests to make available to us
the judicial files, evidence, and judgments regarding each of
these persons," Sara Hossain, chair of the Iran Fact-Finding
Mission, told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The mission also called for the "release all those detained for
exercising their legitimate right to peaceful assembly and for
reporting on the protests".
Responding to the statement in comments to the Council, Kazem
Gharib Abadi, secretary general of Iran's High Council for Human
Rights, called the establishment of the fact-finding mission
last year "an entirely politically motivated and unacceptable
move".
In May, Iran executed three men it said were implicated in the
deaths of three members of its security forces during the
demonstrations.
(Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Helen
Popper)
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