Iran News in Brief – February 4, 2022

UPDATE: 6:30 PM CET

International Aban Tribunal Resumed Today

The International Aban Tribunal, a trial to investigate the crackdown and killing of protesters in November 2019 in Iran, resumed its second round behind closed doors in London, on Friday, February 4. According to the organizers, the trial will continue until Sunday, February 6, but only journalists are allowed to attend the sessions to ensure the safety of 100 new witnesses that are going to be heard.

The first day of this Court began with a speech by Wayne Jordash QC, President of the Court. He reiterated that the Iranian regime has refused to investigate the crimes committed during the November 2019 uprising and has refused to respond to any request from the court.

Today, the wife of one of the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising, one of the detainees, as well as a witness to the massacre of people in the swamp of Mahshahr, South Iran, testified.

The number of regime officials charged in the first session was 133, and in the second round, 27 other regime officials were added to the defendants, including the governors of Kerman and Isfahan and the commander of the army ground forces, as well as 24 others. The defendants have been charged with murder, unlawful imprisonment, enforced disappearance, injury, and severe crackdown of the demonstrators.

According to the court officials, the verdict was supposed to be announced in the second round but due to a large number of testimonies and serious cases against regime officials, the verdict will be postponed until the end of the spring of 2022.

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