Iran ‘bears responsibility’ for Mahsa Amini’s ‘unlawful death’: UN report

Iran “bears duty” for Mahsa Amini’s “illegal demise” in 2022 that ignited nationwide protests, a U.N. report mentioned Friday.

The pronouncement got here from a report by the U.N. Truth-Discovering Mission on Iran, which mentioned that Tehran used “pointless and disproportionate use of deadly drive” to repel protestors within the aftermath of the demise. 

Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian girl who died in police custody in September 2022 after being detained by Iran’s morality police for alleged “improper” put on of her hijab. 

The U.N. report rejected Iran’s claims that she died from a medical situation from her childhood, saying that “primarily based on the proof, alleged problems arising from Ms. Amini’s surgical procedure in childhood might be excluded because the instant reason for her demise.” 

It mentioned the mission “established the existence of proof of trauma to Ms. Amini’s physique, inflicted whereas within the custody of the morality police,” including that she was topic to “bodily violence that led to her demise.” 

“On that foundation, the State bears duty for her illegal demise,” the report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council mentioned. 

Iranian Overseas Ministry’s spokesman Nasser Kanaani rejected the claims within the report, saying its allegations are “primarily based on false and biased data.” 

The report didn’t title anybody particularly for her demise.  

The report additionally mentioned that Tehran’s safety forces carried out “illegal” killings towards protestors “in conditions the place there was no imminent menace of demise or critical damage.” 

A few of the individuals who acquired detained confronted threats of rape and sexual violence. 

“The safety forces performed on social and cultural stigma linked to sexual and gender-based violence to unfold worry and humiliate and punish girls, males and youngsters,” the report mentioned.