A UN-designated expert gave testimony before the Human Rights Council on Monday, outlining recent Iranian government violations that may be considered crimes against humanity, including as murder, incarceration, forced disappearances, torture, rape, and sexual abuse.
Since Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish lady, died while being held in detention in September, there have been a lot of demonstrations throughout Iran.
Amini passed away "as a result of beatings by the state morality police," according to information given to the Geneva-based council by Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on Iran. Iran's state coroner concluded that she passed away from pre-existing medical conditions rather than from blows to the head and limbs.
According to independent expert Rehman, "the scale and intensity of the horrors committed by the government in the course of the persecution that followed her murder suggest to the potential commission of international crimes, notably the crimes against humanity."
Iran's ambassador, Ali Bahreini, informed the group that the charges were false and that Iran was being singled out and targeted by the council. They attempt to portray their imaginations as the actual condition of affairs in Iran, he said.
Rahman also stated that 527 people perished during the protests, including 71 children and those who perished after being physically assaulted by security guards. Shotgun fire was aimed at women and girls' faces, breasts, and genitalia, he said, citing Iranian physicians.
143 persons have been hung since January following "grossly unfair trials," he stated, expressing alarm at the death of at least four protestors.
The 47-member council, which is the sole international organisation entrusted with preserving human rights, resolved in November to establish an unbiased investigation into Iran's crackdown on demonstrations. Sometimes, evidence obtained by other investigations mandated by the U.N. rights council has been admitted by international tribunals.