Amnesty International has criticized the Islamic Republic of Iran for torturing prisoners and detainees, discrimination against Iranian women and religious minorities, and executing minors.
In its annual report on Middle East and North Africa, the organization said that the Iranian authorities “committed the ongoing crime against humanity of enforced disappearance by systematically concealing the fate and whereabouts of several thousand political dissidents who were forcibly disappeared during a wave of secret mass extrajudicial executions in Iran between July and September 1988.”
“The continued suffering inflicted on victims' families violated the absolute prohibition on torture and other ill-treatment," it added.
Iranian authorities killed 1500 people during three-days protests in November, according to a special report by Reuters.
In the meantime, Iranian officials still refuse to reveal the death toll of November protests.
Amnesty International has also criticized the regime’s brutal treatments of prisoners.
"Torture and other ill-treatment, including prolonged solitary confinement, remained widespread and systematic, especially during interrogations. Authorities consistently failed to investigate torture allegations and hold those responsible to account," the report said.
