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UN experts: US strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes

UN experts: US strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes

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September 17th, 2026

UN experts: US strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes

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Experts commissioned by the United Nations' top human rights body said they found "reasonable grounds" to believe that the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including an attack on a school in the southern city of Minab.

聯合國最高人權機構委託的專家表示他們發現有「合理理由相信美國在伊朗兩次打擊犯下戰爭罪其中包括南部城市米納布一所學校的攻擊。

In a report released on Thursday, they also accused Iran's theocratic government of committing crimes against humanity against its own people.

他們在週四發布的報告中還指控伊朗神權政府對本國人民犯下危害人類罪

Although this report is not legally binding, it adds to the body of international evidence already gathered regarding war crimes in Iran, and may ultimately be used in efforts to pursue justice at the International Court of Justice.

這份報告雖不具約束力,卻為已蒐集的伊朗戰爭罪行國際證據增添內容,最終或可應用於國際法院尋求正義的努力。

The Fact-Finding Mission on Iran is chaired by the Bangladeshi jurist Sara Hossain and is composed of independent experts; it was established in 2022 by the Human Rights Council, the United Nations' foremost human rights body, which is based in Geneva.

伊朗問題實況調查團由孟加拉國法學家薩拉·侯賽因主持,由獨立專家組成,並於2022年由設於日內瓦的聯合國最高人權機構人權理事會設立。

The experts are expected to present their findings to the Human Rights Council on Monday, which is composed of 47 UN member states.

專家們預計於週一向人權理事會提交調查結果,該理事會由47個聯合國成員國組成。

The White House issued a sharply worded statement in response, with spokesperson Anna Kelly saying that the human rights body "has done nothing but spout nonsense for decades, with no achievements whatsoever in the field of human rights."

白宮就此發表措辭嚴厲的聲明發言人安娜·凱利該人權機構數十年來只會空談無稽之談在人權方面毫無建樹」。

On Thursday, Kelly stated: "In this conflict, the only party that has committed war crimes is the Iranian regime, which has killed thousands of its own people, killed Americans abroad, carried out acts of terrorism in the Strait of Hormuz, and launched indiscriminate attacks on its regional neighbours."

凱利週四表示:「在這場衝突中唯一犯下戰爭罪的一方是伊朗政權它殺害了數千本國人民在海外殺害美國人在霍爾木茲海峽實施恐怖主義行為,並對地區鄰國發動不分青紅皂白的攻擊。」

The international fact-finding mission stated that its findings regarding US war crimes focused on two US airstrikes, which killed at least 178 civilians, including women and children.

國際實況調查團表示,其關於美國戰爭罪的調查結果,集中於兩次美軍空襲,這些空襲造成至少178名平民死亡,其中包括婦女和兒童。

According to a journalist investigation, at the start of the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran in February, at least one American missile struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab.

據記者調查在2月美國與以色列對伊朗開戰之初至少一枚美國導彈擊中了米納布沙賈雷·塔伊貝學校

At present, the final figures regarding how the incident unfolded have not yet been released.

目前關於事件經過最終統計尚未公布

Iranian state media claimed that the strike killed 168 people, the vast majority of them children.

伊朗官方媒體宣稱,此次打擊導致168人喪生,其中絕大多數為兒童。

The United Nations issued a statement in response to the investigation team's findings, noting: "After the United States and Israel launched attacks on February 28, the investigation team concluded that there were reasonable grounds to believe that the United States had committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks, resulting in civilian casualties or damage to civilian objects."

聯合國針對該調查團隊調查結果發表聲明指出:「在2月28日美國以色列發動攻擊,調查團認定有合理理由相信美國犯下發動不分青紅皂白攻擊的戰爭罪造成平民傷亡民用物體受損。」

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request from reporters seeking comment.

美國國務院未立即回應記者尋求置評的請求。

In their report, the experts concluded that "the school building was a designated target," and that the resulting damage was therefore neither an accidental strike nor collateral damage from an attack on the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base next to the school.

專家在報告中得出結論,「學校建築預定的打擊點」,因此所造成的損害既非誤擊也非學校旁邊伊朗革命衛隊營區攻擊附帶損害

To date, the Trump administration has still neither directly accepted responsibility nor released the findings of the Pentagon's investigation into the bombing of the school.

特朗普政府至今仍未直接承擔責任,也未公布五角大樓對學校轟炸的調查結果。

A UN-backed team has levelled allegations based on two strikesone in which a Tomahawk missile hit a "clearly identifiable" school, and another in which a precision-strike missile scattered tungsten munitions over "clearly identifiable sports halls and residential areas" in the southern city of Ramelde, also on 28 February.

聯合國支持的團隊基於兩次打擊提出指控——一次是戰斧導彈擊中清晰可辨」的學校另一次是精確打擊導彈同樣是2月28日南部城市拉梅爾德向「清晰可辨的體育館住宅區散布鎢彈

A UN-backed team claims that a total of 22 civilian men and women were killed.

由聯合國支持的團隊聲稱共有22名平民男女遭到殺害

US Central Command, for its part, denies responsibility for the strikes carried out on al-Ramadi.

美國中央司令部否認對拉梅爾德發動的打擊負有責任

The investigation team found that killings by Iran's state security forces had reached an "alarming scale," and that civilians were facing "grave human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by their own government."

調查團發現,伊朗國家安全部隊的殺戮已達到「驚人的規模」,平民正面臨「本國政府犯下的嚴重人權侵犯和危害人類罪」。

The investigation team alleged that over the past two years, Iran's security forces have carried out "violent repression," including firing assault rifles at crowds, beating protesters, and arresting medical personnel.

調查團指稱伊朗安全部隊在過去兩年間實施暴力鎮壓」,包括向人群發射突擊步槍毆打抗議者以及逮捕醫護人員等。

Experts stated that detainees have been subjected to torture and denied access to legal counsel, leaving their families "completely in the dark" about their whereabouts.

專家表示被拘留者遭受酷刑並被剝奪法律顧問導致家屬對其下落一無所知」。

They added that the Tehran government is increasingly resorting to the death penalty, and stated that more than 70 peopleincluding five women and three boysstill face an "imminent risk of execution."

他們補充說德黑蘭政府日益頻繁地動用死刑並稱超過70人——包括5名婦女3名男孩——仍面臨迫在眉睫的處決風險」。

The statement said: "The report concludes that many of these serious violations constitute crimes against humanityincluding murder, imprisonment, torture and other inhumane acts committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack on civilians."

聲明稱:「報告得出結論,許多這些嚴重侵權行為構成危害人類罪——包括作為對平民廣泛和系統性攻擊的一部分而實施的謀殺、監禁、酷刑和其他不人道行為。」

Experts pointed out that the United States and Iran should put an end to all rights violations and criminal acts, and provide "full compensation" to the victims.

專家指出,美國與伊朗應終止所有侵犯權利及犯罪的行為,並對受害者給予「充分賠償」。

The experts wrote that the report was based on a "victim-centred approach", interviewed 73 people both inside and outside Iran, and drew on documents, satellite imagery, photographs and video material, as well as information from "credible" organisations and experts.

專家寫道,這份報告以「以受害者為中心的方法」為基礎,訪談了伊朗境內外73人,並參考了文件、衛星圖像、照片和視頻材料,以及來自「可信」組織和專家的信息。

The ongoing conflict has forced people to flee their homes in Iran, and together with internet disruptions and a lack of adequate cooperation between the two governments, this has partly hindered the team's efforts to obtain information.

持續的衝突導致民眾逃離伊朗家園加上互聯網中斷以及兩國政府之間缺乏充分合作部分阻礙了團隊獲取資訊的努力

They said that nearly three dozen requests for information submitted by experts to the Iranian government went unanswered, and that a request made in June to the US government for information and a meeting with officials also received no response.

他們說專家向伊朗政府提出的近三打資訊請求均未獲得答覆6月向美國政府提出的資訊與會見官員的請求也未得到回應

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