The members of the fact-finding mission, which was established by order of the United Nations, called today Iranian authorities to stop executing people they have be sentenced to death for their participation in the anti-government protests demonstrations that rocked the country last year.
The death of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September 2022 while in custody by the country’s Morale Police sparked a wave of mass protests across Iran, in the biggest challenge to its religious leaders in decades.
Since then, many people they were hanged because they took part in the protests, which Iran’s leaders blamed on the country’s Western enemies.
“We call on the Iranian authorities to stop the executions of citizens convicted and sentenced to death in connection with the protests, and we reiterate our appeals to have access to the court documents, the evidence and the decisions concerning each of these persons,” Sarah Hossein, head of the Fact-Finding Mission in Iran, told the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The members of the mission also requested the “liberation of all that are held for exercising their legal right to peacefully assemble and for addressing the protests.”
Source: News Beast
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