A group of victims of the Iranian government crackdown during the Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 have filed the first criminal complaint against 40 named Iranian officials alleging crimes against humanity, including targeted blinding and murder.
The request for a criminal investigation to be launched has been filed in Argentina by a group of Iranians with the help of the non-profit Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. The Argentinian legal system is especially open to accommodating universal jurisdiction claims.
The filing claims the response from Iran’s security forces to the protests in Iran included “shooting live ammunition, paintball guns, metal pellets not intended to be shot at close range, and other projectiles at protesters.
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