Request for international probe

In an early draft of the resolution that Germany and Iceland are due to present prior to the special session, they call on the council to create a high-level international investigation to probe all alleged violations connected with the protests in Iran.

The so-called independent

international fact-finding mission should include ‘the gender dimensions of such violations’

in its investigations, according to the text, seen by AFP.

The draft resolution, which could still change, calls for the

investigators to ‘collect, consolidate and analyse evidence of such violations, and to preserve

evidence’. This should be done ‘in view of cooperation with any future legal proceedings in national, regional or international courts or tribunals that have, or may in the future have, jurisdiction’, it said.

The draft text called on Tehran to ‘cooperate fully’ with the investigators, who it said

should present an oral update to the council during its regular June session next year, and a full report in March 2024.

The meeting on November 24 will be the 35th special session held by the UN Human Rights Council since it was

founded in 2006, and the first called on Iran.