In a joint letter, Amnesty International, along with other organizations, calls for the attention of member states of the UN Human Rights Council to the ongoing full-fledged human rights crisis in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and urges their governments to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as the continuation of a complementary international independent investigative mechanism with a sufficiently broad and robust mandate, to follow up on, and build upon, the work of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran. The mechanism should have a mandate, inter alia, to investigate, collect and preserve evidence of recent and ongoing patterns of serious human rights violations and crimes under international law, and to pursue accountability efforts.
