Special Procedures Communications to the Islamic Republic of Iran

Information received concerning the arrest and detention of human rights defender, Mr. Hossein Ronaghi, his subsequent ill-treatment, critical health condition and medical neglect, and the arrest and charges amounting to death penalty against Saman Yasin, a rapper and activist.

Information received concerning ongoing excessive and lethal use of force by Iranian security forces against protesters demonstrating in response to the death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, who died after she was detained by the Gasht-e-Ershad (Guidance Patrol) for allegedly not complying with Iran’s compulsory veiling laws. The information refers to a continuous crackdown on civil society by the Iranian authorities, the use of live ammunitions against protesters, sexual and gender-based violence against women, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings, as well as the disruption of the Internet, preventing access to and the sharing of information on the protests.

Information received concerning the alleged failure to comply with your Excellency Government’s obligation to ensure locating, protecting, preserving and exhuming mass and unmarked grave sites, their investigation compliant with international standards with a view to identifying those buried therein and the search for forcibly disappeared persons in connection with the enforced disappearance and summary execution of political dissidents between July and early September in 1988 in 32 cities, and the refusal to provide their families with accurate and complete death certificates.