Government-led crackdowns on protesters in Iran have had a disproportionate impact on the country's ethnic and religious minorities since 2022, particularly in the Kurd and Baluch communities, according to a new advocacy paper released by the Human Rights Council-appointed International Fact-Finding Mission on Monday.

The paper highlights several ways Iranian security forces violated the rights of minorities including through 'extrajudicial executions, unnecessary use of lethal force, arbitrary arrests, torture, rape' and other crimes against humanity.