An Israeli airstrike on Tehran’s Evin Prison last year was a war crime, according to an independent panel of experts commissioned by the UN’s Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n
In a report presented in Geneva on Monday, three legal experts monitoring Iran for the council said the June attack, which killed about 80 people, did not constitute a legitimate military objective.<\/p>\n
The notorious prison is known for holding political prisoners.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s mission to the United Nations in Geneva said a response to the allegation would likely be issued on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to the report, Israel has previously defended the operation as a strike against Iranian domestic oppression and anti-Israeli espionage activities allegedly conducted within the prison walls.<\/p>\n
Sara Hossain, chair of the expert panel, said military intervention was unlikely to produce lasting political change in Iran.<\/p>\n
“External military action does not provide accountability or bring
meaningful change,” she said, referring to the latest military campaign against Iran by the US and Israel.<\/p>\n
“Instead, it risks intensifying domestic repression by a state that routinely resorts to repressive measures to suppress dissent.”<\/p>\n
The UN experts also accused Iranian authorities of committing serious human rights violations that they said amount to crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n
These include killings, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence and the persecution of women, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Israeli airstrike on Tehran’s Evin Prison last year was a war crime, according to an independent panel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10875,10874,34,37,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-22239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-evin-prison","9":"tag-human-rights-council","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116240540551836590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}