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A UN Special Rapporteur informed that the UN has received reports that state authorities in Iran have killed at least 27 children since the beginning of the protests on the 16th of September. UNIFEED

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DATELINE: 27 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / FILE


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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

26 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“As we meet today, Iran is in turmoil in part as a consequence of the killing of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman from Kurdish minority.”
4. Med shot, journalist asking question
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“In my view, she's a victim of state brutality and state repression.”
6. Wide shot, press room dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“On the 22nd of September, together with seven special procedures mandate holders, I denounced the crackdown on protesters, and I urged authorities to immediately stop the use of lethal force in policing peaceful assemblies to avoid further violence, to hold an independent, impartial and prompt investigation into depth into the death of Mahsa Amini, to make the findings of the investigation public and to hold all perpetrators accountable. And there were similar calls from the United Nations and all around the world.”
8. Wide shot, press room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“It is clear that the so-called investigations into the death of Gina Mahsa Amini have failed the minimum requirements of impartiality and independence.”
10. Close up, journalist asking question
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“Her death has given, you know, the way it has happened, has given way to huge waves of protests spanning the geography of the country, its provinces, cities, and social strata, and these protests have called for change. And as I said, the slogan ‘women, life and freedom’ has become a slogan of that nation.”
12. Wide shot, press room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“Unfortunate as it was that Gina Mahsa Amini was killed on 16th of September, she is not the first woman who has faced these brutal consequences, nor was she the last one, because we have received a number of reports about several other girls and women and in fact, children who have been killed by the authorities. We have a figure of at least 27 children who have been killed by the state authorities since these protests started. And the overall figure is a minimum of 250 people who have been killed by the state since the wave of these protests started on the 16th of September.”
14. Wide shot, press room dais

STORYLINE:

A UN Special Rapporteur informed that the UN has received reports that state authorities in Iran have killed at least 27 children since the beginning of the protests on the 16th of September.

Briefing journalists today (27 Oct) in New York, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, said that “unfortunate as it was that Gina Mahsa Amini was killed on 16th of September, she is not the first woman who has faced these brutal consequences, nor was she the last one”.

According to Rehman, the overall figure of deaths is a minimum of 250 people in the last 40 days.

The human rights expert explained that “Iran is in turmoil in part as a consequence of the killing of the 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman from Kurdish minority.”

In Rehman’s view, Amini is “a victim of state brutality and state repression.”

The Special Rapporteur remembered that, on the 22nd of September, together with seven special procedures mandate holders, he denounced the crackdown on protesters and urged authorities “to immediately stop the use of lethal force in policing peaceful assemblies to avoid further violence, to hold an independent, impartial and prompt investigation into depth into the death of Mahsa Amini, to make the findings of the investigation public and to hold all perpetrators accountable.”

According to him, “there were similar calls from the United Nations and all around the world.”

More than a month later, Rehman says that “it is clear that the so-called investigations into the death of Gina Mahsa Amini have failed the minimum requirements of impartiality and independence.”

The expert noted that her death “has given way to huge waves of protests spanning the geography of the country, its provinces, cities, and social strata, and these protests have called for change.”

He also said that “the slogan ‘women, life and freedom’ has become a slogan of that nation.”

Special Rapporteurs are part of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and work on a voluntary basis. They are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent of any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity.  
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