Amnesty International annual report, addresses the severe suppression and the violation of human rights in Islamic Republic of Iran in 2021
Amnesty International annual report: In 2021, Iran’s authorities continued severe crackdown, and violation of freedom of speech and assembly.
According to Amnesty International annual report addressing the ongoing suppression and violation of human rights in Iran in 2021: “The authorities continued to heavily suppress the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. They banned independent political parties, trade unions and civil society organizations, censored media and jammed satellite television channels.”
In its annual report published on Tuesday, March 29, 2021, Amnesty International mentions the heavy crackdown of peaceful protests and usage of force including during the protests in Khuzestan, Lorestan and Isfahan. The organization states that during these crackdowns at least 11 have lost their lives and many have been wounded.
The report also addresses the issue of censorship regarding the social media and the internet shutdowns. It refers to such acts as a leverage to cover the dimensions of the violation committed by the security agencies.
Amnesty International annual report reads in part:
“In January, the authorities added Signal to the list of blocked social media platforms, which included Facebook, Telegram, Twitter and YouTube. Security and intelligence officials carried out arbitrary arrests for social media postings deemed “counterrevolutionary” or “un-Islamic”.
The authorities, imposed internet shutdowns during protests, hiding the scale of violations by security forces. In July, parliament fast-tracked preparations for a bill that is expected to be adopted in 2022 and which would criminalize the production and distribution of censorship circumvention tools and intensify surveillance.
Several thousand men, women and children were interrogated, unfairly prosecuted and/or arbitrarily detained solely for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly. Among them were protesters, journalists, dissidents, artists, writers, teachers and dual nationals.
Also among them were human rights defenders, including lawyers; women’s rights defenders; defenders of LGBTI people’s rights, labour rights and minority rights; environmentalists; anti-death penalty campaigners; and bereaved relatives demanding accountability, including for mass executions, and enforced disappearances in the 1980s. Hundreds remained unjustly imprisoned at the end of the year.”
Amnesty International’s annual report also states:
“In August, intelligence officials interrogated the relatives of exiled Kurdish human rights defender Arsalan Yarahmadi
and threatened him with death. Iranian-Swedish dissident Habib Chaab and Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, who
had previously been abducted abroad and returned to Iran, remained at risk of the death penalty.
Security forces deployed unlawful force, including live ammunition and birdshot, to crush mostly peaceful protests. In July, at least 11 people were shot dead during protests over water shortages in Khuzestan and Lorestan provinces and scores were
injured. On 26 November, security forces fired metal pellets to disperse protests over water mismanagement in Esfahan, leading to scores of people, including children, being blinded or sustaining other serious eye injuries.
Over 700 petrochemical workers were unjustly dismissed for participating in nationwide strikes in June.”
Amnesty International Annual Report Link in English
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