The Iranian state has rejected a resolution by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council that strongly condemned the “violent crackdown on peaceful protests” by security forces that left thousands dead.
After a detailed meeting and discussions in Geneva on Friday, 25 members of the council, including France, Japan, and South Korea, voted in favor of the censure resolution.
The human rights council called on Iran to stop the arrests of people in connection with the protests, and to take steps to “prevent extrajudicial killing, other forms of arbitrary deprivation of life, enforced disappearance, sexual, and gender-based violence” and other actions violating its human rights obligations.
UN special rapporteur on Iran, Mai Sato, has said the death toll could reach 20,000 or more as reports from doctors from inside Iran emerge.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk told the council that “the brutality in Iran continued, creating conditions for further human rights violations, instability, and bloodshed” weeks after the killings on January 8 and January 9, when a communications blackout was also enforced.
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Iran Rejects UN Rights Resolution Condemning Protest Killings
24/01/2026
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