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Iranian authorities have unleashed an unprecedented, deadly crackdown to crush protests demanding change following decades of repression. Thousands have been arbitrarily detained, and authorities have used unlawful force, resulting in mass killings and serious injuries. We must take action now to end protest violence in Iran and hold authorities to account.

Protests erupted in Iran on 28 December 2025, with people across the country demanding fundamental change and a political system that respects human rights and dignity.

Authorities have met protesters with lethal repression - security forces carrying out torture, violence and mass killings under the cover of digital darkness since 8 January, when a nationwide internet shutdown was imposed to conceal their crimes.

Verified videos and eyewitness accounts gathered by Amnesty International show security forces firing rifles and shotguns loaded with metal pellets at protesters, frequently targeting their heads and torsos.

Medical facilities have been overwhelmed with the injured, while distraught families search for their missing loved ones in overflowing morgues and hospitals.

Those arbitrarily detained across the country include protesters, human rights defenders, medical care workers who provided care to injured protesters, lawyers, members of ethnic and religious minorities, journalists and university students.

The head of judiciary gave orders to show “no leniency” against those who dare to stand up against the Islamic Republic system, and those arbitrarily detained continue to be at risk of conviction, prolonged sentences, and the death penalty based on forced “confessions” extracted under torture or other ill-treatment.

There is undeniable evidence that the Iranian authorities have consistently violated human rights law and standards on the use of force and firearms, showing blatant and reckless disregard for human rights.

UN member states, including Australia, must take urgent diplomatic action to protect protesters from further violence and massacres and confront the systemic impunity that is driving this deadly crackdown.

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Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
25 Culgoa Circuit
O'Malley, ACT 2606

Mr Hossein Taleb,

I am gravely concerned that the thousands of individuals, including children, arrested in connection with the nationwide protests that began on 28 December 2025 are at grave risk of enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, deaths in custody and prolonged imprisonment and/or arbitrary executions following grossly unfair trials, including before Revolutionary Courts.

Amnesty International has gathered evidence that those arrested have been subjected to enforced disappearance as well as to torture and other ill-treatment during arrest and in detention including beatings, sexual violence, threats of summary executions, and deliberate denial of adequate food, water and medical care.

State media has aired propaganda videos of detained protesters, including children, making forced “confessions” of committing various offences during the protests, including those carrying the death penalty, raising grave concerns that the Iranian authorities will continue the execution spree they began during the 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising.

Public statements by senior officials are alarming, smearing protesters as “rioters” and “terrorists” and insisting that they be “tried and punished as quickly as possible” with “no leniency”.

I call on you to immediately release all those detained solely for exercising their human rights including the right of peaceful assembly; to protect from torture and other ill-treatment all those who have been detained; to disclose the fate and whereabouts of all individuals forcibly disappeared; and to grant access to their lawyers, families and any medical care they require. I further urge you to immediately quash all convictions and death sentences, to refrain from seeking further death sentences and to ensure that anyone charged with a recognizable criminal offence is tried in proceedings meeting international fair trial standards without recourse to the death penalty.

Yours sincerely,

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