Geneva correspondent, BBC News
EPAThe United Nations said that Iran is using drones and intrusive digital technology to crush the opposition, especially among women who refuse to obey the strict dress law of the Islamic Republic.
Investigators say that Iranian security officials use a “vigilance sponsored” strategy to encourage people to use specialized phone applications to report women about violations of alleged dress bases in private vehicles such as taxis and ambulances.
Their new report also highlights the increasing use of drones and security cameras to monitor the compliance of the veil in Tehran and southern Iran.
For women who unite the laws, or protest against them, the consequences are severe – arrest, beating, and even rape in reservation.
Results Among the independent international mission of fact -finding in the Islamic Republic of Iran comes after it decided last year that the democracy is in the country He was responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the death held in Mahasa in 2022.
Witnesses said that the 22 -year -old was hit badly by the Ethics Police during her arrest, but the authorities denied that they were ill and blamed “sudden heart failure” for her death. Her killing has sparked a huge wave of protests that continue today, despite the threats of arrest and violent prison.
The report said: “After two and a half years of the start of the protests in September 2022, women and girls in Iran continue to confront systematic discrimination, in law and practice, which permeates all aspects of her life, especially with regard to the enforcement of the compulsory veil.”
“The state is increasingly dependent on the vigilance of the state in a clear effort to recruit companies and individuals in compliance with the veil, and its perception as a civil responsibility.”
The report said that the authorities installed face recognition programs at the University of Tehran, where the authorities installed the facial recognition program at the entry gate to find women who did not wear the veil.
Surveillance cameras On the main roads in Iran, they are also used to search for discovered women.
Investigators also said that they obtained the “Nazi” mobile application provided by the Iranian police, which allows “members of the public” and the police to report women in vehicles, including ambulances, buses, metro cars and taxis.
The report said: “It is permissible for users to add the site, date, time and the number of the license plate for the car in which the alleged mandatory veil violates the compulsory veil, which” learned “the car via the Internet, and alerting the police.”
According to the report, a text message is sent to the registered owner of the car, and they warned them that they have been found in violation of the compulsory veil laws. He added that vehicles can be held to ignore warnings.
UN investigators had an interview with nearly 300 victims and witnesses-they also looked at the judicial system in Iran, which they said lacked any real independence. The victims of torture and other violations were persecuted while their families were “systematically intimidating”, according to their report.
They also found evidence of the deaths outside the judiciary of three children and three protesters for adults, and the state later rejected it as suicide.
The report also established additional cases of sexual violence in the reservation, citing the case of a woman who was arrested severely beaten, and was subjected to fake executions, raped her and then west of the gangs.
The report will be submitted to the Human Rights Council on March 18.
