3 articles · Updated · Amnesty International · Sep 16
Summary
A 1,000-page Amnesty International report says Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during the 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising and names 87 officials for criminal investigation.
Amnesty says the crackdown followed a state policy of lethal force, with the IRGC and FARAJA firing military-grade weapons at crowds; its investigation drew on 270 interviews, 2,000 videos and leaked official documents.
The group separately documented 377 protester and bystander deaths, including 56 children, while saying authorities acknowledged only 202 and falsely blamed many killings on non-state actors.
Kurdish and Baluchi communities accounted for 62% of recorded victims despite making up a far smaller share of Iran's population, which Amnesty says supports a crimes-against-humanity finding of persecution.
Amnesty urged the UN General Assembly to create an international justice mechanism after January 2026 protest massacres and also called for a ceasefire and war-crimes investigations tied to US and Israeli attacks on Iran.