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UN EXPERT URGES PROBE OF IRAN 'ATROCITY CRIMES,' 'GENOCIDE' IN 1980S

July 22, 2024 5:16 PM
 * By Agence France-Presse

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FILE - Javaid Rehman, the U.N.'s independent special rapporteur on the rights
situation in Iran, listens to a statement at the United Nations in Geneva on
Nov. 24, 2022.
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Geneva, Switzerland — 

A U.N. expert called Monday for an international investigation into "atrocity
crimes," including genocide, committed in Iran against religious minorities and
amid a purge of dissidents in the 1980s.

Javaid Rehman, the U.N.'s independent special rapporteur on the rights situation
in Iran, said there should be "no impunity for such gross human rights
violations, regardless of when they were committed."

"The Iranian regime and its leaders should not be allowed to escape the
consequences of their crimes against humanity and genocide," he added.

The expert, whose mandate ends on July 31, said in a statement that the
"atrocity crimes" of summary, arbitrary and extra-judicial executions in
1981-1982 and in 1988 "amounted to crimes against humanity of murder and
extermination, as well as genocide."

Women, some reportedly raped before being killed, and numerous children were
among those executed, he said.

Rehman lamented that "the targeting and victimizing of religious, ethnic and
linguistic minorities and political opponents continued with complete impunity
during, and since, the first decade of the establishment of the Islamic Republic
in 1979."

He highlighted attacks on the Bahai — Iran's largest non-Muslim minority — which
he said was "targeted with genocidal intent and persecution."

Human Rights Watch warned back in April that Iranian authorities' persecution of
the Bahai minority constituted a crime against humanity.

Unlike other minorities, Bahais do not have their faith recognized by Iran's
constitution and have no reserved seats in parliament.

Rehman, who was appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council but who does not
speak on behalf of the United Nations, pointed to reports that more than 200
Bahais had been executed or murdered since the early 1980s, while thousands had
been arrested.

Amid Iran's crackdown on "anti-Islam" groups, he also suggested that Marxists,
atheists and other non-believers had also been subjected to genocide.

Rehman's report also pointed to the alleged extrajudicial executions of
thousands of mainly young people across Iranian prisons within a few months in
the summer of 1988, just as the war with Iraq was ending, describing it as a
"shocking tale of brutality."

Those killed were mainly supporters of the People's Mujahedin Organization of
Iran — a group considered a terrorist organization by Iran that backed Baghdad
during the conflict.

The expert lamented that "the Iranian government continues to deny the 'atrocity
crimes,' perpetrators have not been brought to justice."

"An independent international investigative and accountability mechanism for
Iran is absolutely essential."


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