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Most of these officials remain in positions of authority enabling them to unleash further deadly repression in Iran. This impunity emboldened the authorities to unlawfully kill thousands more protesters between 8 and 9 Jan 2026. 2/2
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We at @amnesty welcome the landmark ruling by a U.S. federal court in Florida allowing a lawsuit filed by three Iranian torture survivors against Parviz Sabeti, a former senior official in SAVAK, Iran’s intelligence agency during the Shah era, to move forward. 1/5
Iranian authorities’ arbitrary execution of Amirhossein Ebrahimi Analojeh and Amirhossein Maleki on 3 November, convicted in relation to the January 2026 protests, is horrific. They were sentenced to death by a Revolutionary Court after a torture-tainted grossly unfair trial. 1/4
Iran’s authorities executed at least 34 people in connection to the Jan 2026 uprising after unfair trials. At least 20 others are at imminent risk of protest-related executions after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. Many more remain at risk. amnesty.org/en/documents/mde…
Iranian authorities must immediately halt plans to execute Taraneh Rahimi, 21, and quash her conviction and death sentence. In August 2026, a Revolutionary Court in Esfahan sentenced her to death after a grossly unfair torture-tainted trial linked to the January 2026 uprising.1/5
Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to execute Fatemeh Aini, 31, who is held in Lakan prison, Rasht. A Revolutionary Court sentenced her to death following a grossly unfair trial for drug-related offences. @amnesty just learned that 3 days ago Fatemeh Aini 1/3
Iran’s authorities executed at least 34 people in connection to the Jan 2026 uprising after unfair trials. At least 20 others are at imminent risk of protest-related executions after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences. Many more remain at risk. amnesty.org/en/documents/mde…
The US Department of Defence must immediately release its full investigation into the air strike on the elementary school in Minab, unclassified and unredacted. Survivors and victims’ families, have a right to know what happened. amnestyusa.org/press-release…
Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to carry out floggings, which amount to torture, against singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight others in connection to a live-streamed 2024 concert in Qom province. 1/5
Four years ago today, security forces in Iran unlawfully killed 87 protesters and bystanders from the persecuted Baluchi ethnic minority in Zahedan in what became known as “Bloody Friday” during the 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising. amnesty.org/en/documents/mde… 1/2
Amnesty International has exposed how Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity to crush the Woman Life Freedom uprising.
Stand with victims and call on the UN General Assembly to create an international criminal justice mechanism on Iran amnesty.org/en/petition/dema… 2/2
Impunity for the crimes against humanity committed in 2022 emboldened Iran's authorities to commit further atrocities. Thousands were killed in the Jan 2026 protest massacres. People in Iran remain at risk of recurring & escalating mass protest killings.
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Iran's authorities must immediately halt any plans to execute protester Ali Zarei Doozdarehsi & quash his conviction & death sentence. On 21 Sept, activists reported that he was transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezal Hesar prison, raising fears of imminent execution. 1/3
Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to execute 25-year-old Alireza Sepahi in Esfahan. He was sentenced to death in connection to January 2026 protests following an unfair trial. The Supreme Court upheld his sentence in July 2026. 1/5
According to an informed source, security forces shot him in the legs during his arrest from his home on 10 January 2026. @Amnesty learned that the agents also arrested his 14-year-old sister & his mother; his mother remains detained. 2/5
Based on extensive investigations, Amnesty International has exposed the chain of command behind the Iranian authorities’ crimes against humanity to crush the 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising. We name 87 officials who should be criminally investigated. 1/2
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Victims of crimes against humanity in Iran are demanding justice.
Call on the UN General Assembly to create an international criminal justice mechanism in Iran. It is time to end the normalization of repeated mass protest killings in Iran.
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🧵@amnesty’s new landmark 1000+ page report exposes the chain of command behind the deadly crackdown on the 2022 #WomanLifeFreedom uprising in Iran and identifies 87 officials who should be criminally investigated for crimes against humanity. 1/18 amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
The extensive evidence @amnesty reveals in our new report leaves no doubt: Iranian authorities carried out a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population demanding dignity, human rights and fundamental political change. 2/18
Protesters in Iran have been killed, tortured or imprisoned in the thousands for demanding human rights & fundamental political change. Sign the petition to call for creating an international criminal justice mechanism for crimes against humanity in Iran. amnesty.org/en/petition/dema…
«مأموران به هر کسی که میدیدند شلیک میکردند و برایشان مهم نبود زن باشد، کودک، رهگذر یا معترض... بسیاری از مردم بر اثر اصابت گلولههای ساچمهای به پاها، بدن، سینه و صورتشان مجروح شدند.»
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از میان جانباختگان ثبت شده، دستکم ۱۷ درصد، یعنی ۵۶ نفر، کودک بودند.
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فهرست و مشخصات جانباختگان جنایات علیه بشریت در جریان خیزش «زن، زندگی، آزادی» ایران در سال ۱۴۰۱
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گزارش بیش از هزار صفحهای عفو بینالملل، افشا میکند که چگونه مقامات جمهوری اسلامی ایران برای سرکوب خیزش «زن، زندگی، آزادی» در سال ۲۰۲۲ مرتکب جنایت علیه بشریت شدند.
این گزارش همچنین ۸۷ مقام را شناسایی میکند که باید تحت تحقیقات کیفری قرار گیرند.
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Read @amnesty's groundbreaking 1000+ page report, Architects of Atrocities: State Machinery Orchestrating Crimes Against Humanity in Iran’s 2022 Woman Life Freedom Uprising, published today, here amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
