Briefing at UN Headquarters in New York – the primary time the mission has offered findings to the Basic Meeting – chairperson Sara Hossain stated that situations have deteriorated because the Israeli airstrikes, which reportedly killed over 1,000 folks.
In line with Iranian Authorities figures, 276 civilians, together with 38 kids and 102 ladies, had been among the many useless, and over 5,600 people had been injured. Civilian infrastructure, together with medical amenities and faculties, suffered harm.
The Authorities additionally reported that the infamous Evin Jail in Tehran was hit with out warning.
Iranian Crimson Crescent groups seek for survivors after Israeli airstrike.
Round 80 folks, together with prisoners, members of the family (the assault happened throughout visting hours), workers and at the least one youngster had been killed. The jail housed round 1,500 inmates on the time, amongst them many human rights defenders and activists.
Ms. Hossain additionally expressed alarm at Iran’s response, which included missile strikes towards Israel, which authorities stated left 31 useless and over 3,300 injured.
Sara Hossain, Chair of the UN Unbiased Worldwide Truth-Discovering Mission on Iran, briefs the United Nations Human Rights Council.
‘Systemic assault towards a civilian inhabitants’
The aftermath of the strikes, she stated, led to a home crackdown by the Iranian Authorities which has additional eroded respect for the best to life.
The Human Rights Council-appointed investigators have documented the arrest of 1000’s of individuals, together with attorneys, journalists, human rights defenders, and people expressing their views on the battle on social media.
This yr has seen an increase in executions in Iran, to the best recorded degree since 2015.
Most loss of life penalty circumstances investigated by the mission seem to contravene worldwide human rights regulation. Laws was handed increasing using the loss of life penalty for “espionage,” and criminalising the posting of content material on social media that the Authorities deems “false info.”
“If executions type a part of a widespread and systemic assault towards a civilian inhabitants, as a matter of coverage, then these accountable – together with the judges who impose capital punishment – could also be held accountable for crimes towards humanity,” stated Truth-Discovering Mission rights knowledgeable Max du Plessis.
The current crackdown has additionally affected ethnic and non secular minorities, with over 330 Kurds and huge numbers of Arabs arrested, and tons of of 1000’s of Afghans deported, investigators reported.
Members of the Baha’i spiritual minority have been accused of being “Zionist spies” and a few had been arrested in home raids, with their property confiscated.
Impunity for ‘honour killings’
The persistence of different grave types of violence, together with the circumstances of femicide (the intentional killing of ladies and women due to their gender) have been reported in current months.
The Mission acquired credible info that there have been 60 such circumstances between March and September of 2025. “Honour killings” and different types of gender-based violence, the mission reported, happen with impunity.
Companies offering companies to ladies refusing to adjust to the necessary hijab legal guidelines have reportedly been closed, and surveillance has allegedly intensified. Stories additionally point out that the “morality police” have lately returned to patrol the streets.
The Truth-Discovering Mission has documented rising circumstances of transnational repression, together with interrogation, threats, and surveillance of households of Iranian journalists overseas. It has acquired credible info indicating that greater than 45 media staff in seven international locations have confronted credible threats.
“The acts of denying justice will not be impartial,” Ms. Hossain stated. “Failure to deal with injustice prolongs the struggling of victims and undermines the State’s obligations beneath worldwide human rights regulation to make sure accountability, reality, justice, and reparations.”
‘Rights to life and liberty beneath unprecedented menace’
In her report to the Basic Meeting, the impartial human rights knowledgeable on Iran, Mai Sato, condemned the strikes by Israel and the US as illegal makes use of of drive in violation of the UN Constitution, while expressing deep concern that the top of the hostilities had introduced no aid to the folks of Iran.
“Exterior aggression has fuelled deeper inside repression,” she stated. “The Iranian folks’s rights to life and liberty are beneath unprecedented menace.” Ms. Saito described the rise in executions as a deliberate coverage of worry and retribution, noting that many executions adopted unfair trials or imprecise nationwide safety costs.
The Particular Rapporteur – who shouldn’t be a UN staffer and receives no wage for her work – additionally highlighted a rising sample of transnational repression, with Iranian authorities focusing on dissidents overseas by means of intimidation, surveillance, and menace, and appealed to different UN Member States to assist at-risk Iranian civil society actors, and coordinate efforts to counter transnational repression.
