Viviana Krsticevich, a member of the UN's independent fact-finding commission on Iran, announced that this commission recorded the deaths of at least 221 children during the repression of the protests in January, the youngest of whom was only four months old. He also said that more than 100 people, including women and children, face the death penalty in connection with the protests.
On Wednesday, October 28, at the meeting of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, Krsticevic said that the authorities of the Islamic Republic published a list with the names of more than 3,000 dead, but the fact-finding committee believes that the actual number of dead is several times higher. According to him, during and after the demonstrations, tens of thousands of people were arrested, and there are reports of torture and abuse of the detainees.
He added that the nearly five-month nationwide shutdown of the Internet, communication restrictions and witnesses' fears of retaliation limited the fact-finding team's access to information. Krstevich also said that women and girls continue to face institutionalized discrimination, and Kurds, Baloch and Baha'is are also targeted because of their ethnic, political or religious identity.