Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> head Ahmad Vahidi, Deputy Interior Minister for Security Majid Mir-Ahmadi, Tehran IRGC Commander Hassan Hassanzadeh, and Tehran Deputy Prosecutor Mohammad Shahriari.<\/p>\n\u201cThis investigation exposes the layers of command and coordination behind the Iranian authorities\u2019 deadly protest crackdowns. The agents on the streets operated within a hierarchical and coordinated chain of command, linking them to officials who directed, enabled, facilitated, and supported crimes committed on a massive scale,\u201d Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General Agn\u00e8s Callamard said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe officials named remain beyond the reach of justice in Iran. Most remain in positions from which they can unleash further deadly repression, while some even climbed the chain of command after the crimes against humanity in 2022. The cost of continued impunity has been devastating. It is beyond time to establish an international criminal justice mechanism for Iran before another protest massacre.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report was based on interviews with 270 people \u2013 including protesters, former detainees, relatives of those killed or detained, eyewitnesses, lawyers, human rights defenders, journalists, and medical workers.<\/p>\n
Amnesty also analyzed over 2,000 videos and extensive documentary evidence, including official statements, leaked official documents, prosecution orders, court verdicts, and forensic records.<\/p>\n
The organization said it had written to Iran\u2019s supreme leader and senior security officials to share its findings but received no response by the time of publication.<\/p>\n
Amnesty expands call for justice to January 2026 protests<\/p>\n
In addition to calling for international criminal justice mechanisms to hold Iranian officials accountable for crimes against humanity committed in 2022, Amnesty called for an international justice mechanism to address the large-scale protest killings of January 2026.<\/p>\n
The IRGC and the Police Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FARAJA) were identified as the two main security forces that led lethal protest dispersals while implementing state policy devised through the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), State Security Council, and provincial and county security councils.<\/p>\n
FARAJA and IRGC agents repeatedly fired into crowds using military-grade assault rifles, handguns, and shotguns loaded with metal pellets, Amnesty reported, matching accounts shared with The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Iranian nurse Yasser Fattahi, who treated wounded protesters, told the Post that security forces shot his father in the leg as he attempted to reach a young woman who had been shot and was not moving. Fattahi\u2019s father, Jowhar, later died of his wounds.<\/p>\n
The NGO also found that the forces chased fleeing protesters and bystanders, fatally shooting many at close range despite them posing no threat.<\/p>\n
The documents analyzed by Amnesty, both leaked and official, also revealed that Tehran instructed security forces to issue a \u201cfirm and severe\u201d response to the protesters, with one leaked order revealing that forces were specifically instructed to \u201crespond mercilessly and go as far as causing death.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Baluchi and Kurdish communities were those primarily affected by the lethal repression, accounting for 62% of the recorded victims, despite representing only 5% and 10-15% of the country\u2019s population, respectively.<\/p>\n
Amnesty details deadly crackdowns in Kurdish and Baluchi regions<\/p>\n
Amnesty confirmed the unlawful killings of 106 Baluchi protesters and bystanders, including 20 children, by security forces in Sistan and Baluchistan province.<\/p>\n
The organization also documented the unlawful killings of 95 Kurdish protesters and bystanders, including 13 children, in the context of protest dispersals or in militarized areas near protests across 17 counties in Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan provinces.<\/p>\n
Most of the victims were fatally shot, though others were beaten to death, struck by tear gas canisters, or deliberately run over by security force vehicles.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe extensive evidence gathered and analyzed in our report leaves no doubt: Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity to crush the 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising. They waged a widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population that was demanding dignity, human rights, and fundamental political change, pursuant to a state policy of using lethal force to obliterate dissent,\u201d Callamard said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur report also unveils how crimes against humanity in Iran are sustained by an architecture of impunity built into the country\u2019s constitutional, legislative, political, and judicial frameworks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe horrifying result has been intensifying cycles of mass protest killings culminating in the massacres of thousands of protesters within just 48 hours on January 8-9, 2026. The UN General Assembly must end the unconscionable normalization of mass protest killings in Iran and create an international criminal justice mechanism aimed at prosecuting those most implicated in crimes against humanity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
While condemning the Israeli and American attacks on Iran, Callamard insisted that Iranians are now facing brutal repression and persecution from the regime and are being made to bear \u201cthe human cost of unlawful military action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 87 \u201carchitects\u201d of the Islamic Republic\u2019s brutal crackdown on the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests must face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18916,42,87,162248,43,40,38,41,39,18315,4497],"class_list":["post-619307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-amnesty-international","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iranian-women","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-un-women","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}