Human Rights Sanctions: the most likely Effects of establishment of The Fact-Finding Mission for Iran

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1 P.hd student of International Law, Faculty of Law, and Political Science, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Department of Law, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University , Hamedan. Iran

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Human Rights Council issued Resolution A/HRC/S-35/L.1 for the first time for Iran to establish an "International Fact-Finding Mission". The establishment of the fact-finding commission is one of the most important mechanisms of the Human Rights Council for protecting human rights through the investigation of violations in United Nation’s Member States when observing human rights in that country is worrying and the Council should confront with this situation and prevent from impunity. The main mission of this committee is to investigate the alleged violations of human rights in the context of the protests that took place in Iran after the events that happened on 17 September 2022 in the moral security police, especially the rights of women and children, and to collect and analyze evidence with the aim of using them in judicial processes. The research method of this article is analytical-descriptive and the method of collecting information is library method. The main question of this research is what will be the effects and legal consequences of the reports of this commission for Iran in the light of examining similar commissions’ activities? The hypothesis of the authors is that although the possibility of raising the responsibility of protection in the case of the escalation of human rights violations may appear for Iran, but the most likely reaction is to take countermeasures through the imposition of sanctions. Some governments and organizations, such as the European Union, will impose sanctions against officials accused of violating human rights following the reports of this mission.

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International Studies Journal (ISJ)

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Available Online from 19 March 2024

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