'Today's vote sends a clear message to the Iranian authorities that they can no longer commit crimes under international law without fear of consequences,' said amnesty's AgnesCallamard as UN_HRC votes to probe the regime's deadly protest crackdown.
, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman arrested by so-called morality police three days earlier and reportedly beaten for violating the Iran's strict dress code. The group also said that 56 security personnel have been killed.
"This important and long overdue step shows that the cries of people in Iran for justice have finally been heard," Amnesty International secretary-general Agnés Callamard said in a."We hope the establishment of this fact-finding mission marks a fundamental shift in the international community's approach to tackling the crisis of systematic impunity that has long fueled crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations in Iran.
States must now ensure that the mandate is made operational and sufficiently resourced without delay and call upon the Iranian authorities to cooperate fully with the mission and allow unhindered access to the country. Today's vote must also serve as a wake-up call for the Iranian authorities to immediately end their all-out militarized attack on demonstrators.insisting
"However," she added,"before the formal announcement of the probe analysis, the biased and hasty reaction of a number of Western authorities and their interventions in internal affairs of Iran turned the peaceful assemblies into riots and violence."
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