We urgently call on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the international community to demand immediate, independent, and unhindered humanitarian access to civilians injured and killed in Iran and to insist on the restoration of internet and telephone services as a humanitarian necessity. https://t.me/VahidOnline/69829

This petition is initiated by Justidad https://justidad.com/, a transitional justice initiative (https://www.instagram.com/justidad?igsh=a2U3azVrM3dsZmY3), and is signed by activists, human rights defenders, and concerned people living outside Iran, acting in solidarity with civilians inside the country who are being silenced, injured, and killed.

Why This Petition Is Urgent

• People in Iran are bleeding at home because going to the hospital leads to arrest.
• Families are hiding the bodies of their loved ones because retrieving them has become a ransom.
• At the same time, the government has blocked the internet and telephone lines, isolating victims and preventing calls for help.

This petition is based on:

• Continuous monitoring of media and video footage recorded and shared by Iranians through diaspora media outlets.
• Review of extensive visual and testimonial documentation;
• Direct communication with more than 100 individuals inside Iran, including injured civilians, families of those killed, and eyewitnesses.

What Is Happening on the Ground:

Hospitals Have Become Sites of Arrest

Injured civilians avoid hospitals because:

• Security forces monitor emergency rooms;
• Wounded protesters are arrested from hospital beds;
• Medical staff are pressured to report injured individuals.

As a result, many injured people remain untreated in private homes, facing permanent injury or death.

Families Are Forced to Hide the Dead

Families report that:

• Bodies are withheld by authorities;
• Families are demanded extreme sums — reported up to one billion toman — to retrieve bodies;
• Some are pressured to accept false Basij or IRGC affiliation cards to falsely portray civilians as government forces.
• Out of fear, families keep bodies at home until they find a chance for quiet burial.

Communication Blackouts Deepen the Crisis

Internet and telephone shutdowns have:

• Prevented injured civilians from calling for medical help;
• Cut families off from emergency services, lawyers, and relatives;
• Obstructed documentation and humanitarian response;
• Enabled concealment of killings and injuries.

Our Demands

We call on the ICRC and the international community to exercise their mandates, as they have in other situations of internal violence not amounting to armed conflict, and to intervene to ensure protection and humanitarian access in Iran:

• Demand immediate, independent humanitarian access to injured civilians, hospitals, detention centers, and families of the dead;
• Document any refusal of access or continued shutdowns as violations of international law.

Final Call

When medical care becomes a crime,
When bodies become bargaining tools,
When silence is enforced through fear and blackouts,this is no longer only a human rights crisis — it is a humanitarian emergency.

We urge people worldwide to sign, share, and amplify this petition.

Medical care is not a crime.
Mourning is not a crime.
Silencing civilians is a crime.

Initiated by: Justidad – Transitional Justice Initiative
Signed by: Activists and concerned people around the world.