HRA Senior Advocacy Coordinator Skylar Thompson discusses the Iranian government’s  ongoing issue of impunity in a recent article published by the Atlantic Council.

“Without concrete action to fight the plague of impunity that covers Iran, these violent events will only continue to occur and the Iranian people will continue to suffer,” Thompson writes in the article. “Iran has proven they are both unable and unwilling to provide a domestic judicial remedy for victims of human rights violations.”

The blog post discusses the issue specifically through the lens of the November 2019 Protests and the Khuzestan Protests of this year. Protesters in both cases faced violent government suppression, and the actors most directly responsible have since faced little to no repercussions.

“The information on those perpetrators complicit in such widespread abuse is readily available,” Thompson concludes. “The international community must speak up for the Iranian people and take concrete action to ensure that those responsible are held accountable.”

Read the full article here.