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The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran has released his new report in time for the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
In a 36-page report, Ahmad Shaheed claims to have “catalogued allegations that produce a striking pattern of violations of fundamental human rights.”
In a departure from his earlier report, Shaheed makes several recommendations to the Islamic Republic government and specifically calls for “the immediate release of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience and [calls] upon the government to protect the space for public criticism or advocacy.”
The report also urges the authorities to investigate allegations regarding the violation of due process as well as reports of torture and death in detention centres.
The report lists “excessive solitary confinement, electric shock, severe beatings, threats of rape, and threats to detain and/or harm friends, associates, and family members” as instances of torture cited by several witnesses that contacted the special rapporteur. The report indicates some witnesses have said they were coerced into making recordings of false confessions.
Shaheed writes that interviewed several NGOs, Iranians living outside Iran and diplomats.
He indicates that the Mothers of Laleh Park have written to him in order to initiate an investigation into the deaths of their children during the post-election events of 2009.
Saheed calls on Islamic Republic authorities to review their laws regarding political parties, NGOs, the family and security in order to ascertain compatibility with international standards.
Iranian authorities have refused to cooperate with Shaheed, and his request to travel to Iran to corroborate his report was turned down.
Several Islamic Republic figures condemned Shaheed’s earlier report, which also listed accounts of widespread human rights violations in Iran. They accused Shaheed of relying on one-sided data.
SOURCE ; Radio Zamaneh
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United Nations General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 March 2012
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Nineteenth session
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation
of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Summary
The present report,
the first to be submitted to the Human Rights Council, is
submitted pursuant to Council resolution 16/9 and covers the human rights developments
since the commencement of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on 1 August 2011.
The
Special Rapporteur e presented his first interim report to the General Assembly (A/66/374) in October 2011.
The present report outlines the Special Rapporteur‟s proposed methodology and
highlights the recent trends in the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
While listing some of the most recent human rights concerns,
the Special Rapporteur focuses on some of the cases that emerged during post-election unrest in 2009.
Although
the report does not cover all the violations of human rights in the country, it provides a picture
of the prevailing situation in that regard. It is envisaged that a number of important
issues not covered in the present report will be addressed in the Special Rapporteur‟s future
LINK TO THE FULL REPORT ;
http://persian.iranhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/HRC-ICHRI_en.pdf
SOURCE ; UN
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