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The U.N. and Iran

UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran

UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran

August 5, 2022

August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion ...

Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations

Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations

August 5, 2022

Longstanding, Severe Violations of International Standards for Prisoners  International Community Should Demand Closure of Facility For more than a decade, the inmates incarcerated at Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women have been desperately protesting inhumane, unsafe and unlawful conditions at the facility that violate all international norms and standards for prisons. Consistent reports of ...

UN Expert Welcomes Historic Verdict in Universal Jurisdiction Case on Iran

UN Expert Welcomes Historic Verdict in Universal Jurisdiction Case on Iran

July 15, 2022

Lauding a landmark universal jurisdiction conviction in Sweden against Hamid Nouri, an Iranian official accused of mass atrocities, the UN special rapporteur on Iran said today, “The process and verdict in Sweden constitute a landmark and important leap forward ...

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

June 27, 2022

Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained Silent on State’s Violent Crackdown in Iran June 27, 2022 - European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who has traveled travel to Tehran and issued multiple public ...

As Eight Prisoners Face Finger Amputations, UN Calls on Government in Iran to Cease the Torture Once and For All

As Eight Prisoners Face Finger Amputations, UN Calls on Government in Iran to Cease the Torture Once and For All

June 22, 2022

In a statement released today by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, the UN called on the Iranian government, headed by President Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to rescind a finger amputation sentence against eight prisoners, and called on the Iranian government to ...

UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran

UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran

June 21, 2022

In his latest report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over the rising number of executions in the Islamic of Iran, as well as "patterns of arbitrary deprivation of life due to excessive force used by the authorities ...

UN Experts Alarmed by Civil Society Crackdown in Iran

UN Experts Alarmed by Civil Society Crackdown in Iran

June 15, 2022

UN human rights experts today expressed serious concerns about a violent crackdown against civil society in Iran, including members of workers’ unions and teachers arrested for protesting against their low salaries and poor working conditions, and urged those responsible for using excessive force to be held to ...

UN Urges Iran to Revoke Execution of Swedish Academic Ahmadreza Djalali

UN Urges Iran to Revoke Execution of Swedish Academic Ahmadreza Djalali

May 17, 2022

Ahmadreza Djalali, an expert in emergency disaster medicine, has been detained in Iran on trumped-up charges since April 2016. Iranian authorities should revoke ...

Activists Urge UN Rep to Meet Them During Trip to Iran

Activists Urge UN Rep to Meet Them During Trip to Iran

May 12, 2022

Government’s Refusal to Allow UN Human Rights Experts into Country Condemned May 12, 2022 -- A group of prominent civil rights activists in Iran has called on UN representative Alena Douhan, who will be visiting Iran shortly to assess the negative impact of sanctions on the country, to meet ...

UN Human Rights Experts: New Internet Bill Brings Iran Closer to “Digital Wall”

UN Human Rights Experts: New Internet Bill Brings Iran Closer to “Digital Wall”

March 1, 2022

UN human rights experts have urged the Iranian government to abandon a proposed bill that would drastically increase the authorities’ ability to censor and surveil activity on the internet. "This bill represents a worrying step towards the consolidation of a digital wall in Iran," the experts ...

UN Decries Imminent Execution of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi in Iran

UN Decries Imminent Execution of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi in Iran

January 14, 2022

Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Another juvenile offender, Hossein Shahbazi, is in imminent danger of being executed in Iran after being sentenced to death as a child at the age of 17. "The court relied in part on confessions ...

Families of Victims in Downed Passenger Plane Refuse Iranian Compensation: “No Justice Without the Truth”

Families of Victims in Downed Passenger Plane Refuse Iranian Compensation: “No Justice Without the Truth”

January 10, 2022

Iranian President Ebrahim “Raisi has called for payment of compensation because most of the families have turned it down,” Soleimani told CHRI. “For them, the most important issue is discovering the truth and implementing justice” ...

UN Adopts Resolution Criticizing Iran’s Human Rights Abuses

UN Adopts Resolution Criticizing Iran’s Human Rights Abuses

December 17, 2021

On December 16, 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted draft resolution II, “Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” with 78 votes in favor, 31 against and 69 abstentions. The resolution expressed serious concern at the alarmingly high frequency of the death penalty, including against ...

UN Calls on Iran to Commute Death Sentences Against Child Offenders Upon Execution of Arman Abdolali

UN Calls on Iran to Commute Death Sentences Against Child Offenders Upon Execution of Arman Abdolali

November 24, 2021

The United Nations has strongly condemned the execution of child offender Arman Abdolali in a press release republished below. Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell on execution of juvenile offender Arman Abdolali in Iran GENEVA (24 November 2021) – We condemn the ...

UN Experts Call on Iran to Repeal “Crippling” New Anti-Abortion Law

UN Experts Call on Iran to Repeal “Crippling” New Anti-Abortion Law

November 17, 2021

UN Human Rights experts have called on the Iranian government to repeal and new discriminatory law that severely restricts the already-limited exemptions to the country's Penal Code ban on abortion. Following is the UN's press release Iran: Repeal “crippling” new anti-abortion law – UN ...

Iran Atrocities Tribunal on November 2019 Massacre: A Major Step towards Seeking Justice

Iran Atrocities Tribunal on November 2019 Massacre: A Major Step towards Seeking Justice

November 15, 2021

International Community Must Finally Act with One Voice to Address these Crimes Evidence of the Islamic Republic’s Top Officials Directly Involved in the Atrocities November 15, 2021 -- The Iran Atrocities Tribunal (or “Aban Tribunal”), an independent People’s Tribunal held in London to investigate the killing and wounding of thousands ...

UN Expert: Death Penalty Used as a Political Tool in Iran

UN Expert: Death Penalty Used as a Political Tool in Iran

October 29, 2021

In a speech to the UN General Assembly for his fourth annual report, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, criticized three vague criminal charges in Iran that carry the death penalty and are often used against political opponents ...

14 Academic, Rights Groups Call for Release of Iranian Swedish Scholar Ahmadreza Djalali

14 Academic, Rights Groups Call for Release of Iranian Swedish Scholar Ahmadreza Djalali

July 21, 2021

In a joint statement issued today, 14 international academic and human rights groups including Scholars at Risk and the Center for Human Rights in Iran called on the U.S. and European governments to secure the release of Iranian-born Swedish scholar Ahmadreza Djalali, who has ...

Rights Groups: Iranian Dissidents Remain at Risk Worldwide Without International Action

Rights Groups: Iranian Dissidents Remain at Risk Worldwide Without International Action

July 19, 2021

July 19, 2021—In a joint statement released today, 10 human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, urged the international community to hold Iranian authorities accountable for their ongoing campaigns of persecution against Iranian dissidents based inside and outside the country, and called on ...

Raisi’s Role in 1988 Mass Executions Should be Investigated by UN Human Rights Council

Raisi’s Role in 1988 Mass Executions Should be Investigated by UN Human Rights Council

July 6, 2021

Top UN Expert Ready to Share Testimonies, Evidence for Impartial Inquiry July 6, 2021 – The UN Human Rights Council should act upon the call by UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman for an impartial inquiry into the state-ordered mass executions of thousands of prisoners in Iran ...

Top UN Official: Human Rights Situation in Iran is of “Serious Concern”

Top UN Official: Human Rights Situation in Iran is of “Serious Concern”

June 23, 2021

Secretary-General Cites Impunity for Rights Violations and Increase Risk of Future Violations *Read the full UN Secretary-General report here. In the latest report on Iran by the UN Secretary-General, the world’s top diplomat stated that the rights situation in Iran “remains of serious concern” and that “impediments to the rule ...

UN to Iran: Grave Concerns for Jailed Dissident Mohammad Nourizad

UN to Iran: Grave Concerns for Jailed Dissident Mohammad Nourizad

May 4, 2021

Mohammad Nourizad appears with a bloody face after protesting outside the home of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khaminei, October 14, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy/Abazar Noorizad) UN Press Release GENEVA (4 May 2021) – UN human rights experts* today expressed serious ...

UN to Iran: Ahmadreza Djalali Nearing Death in Solitary Confinement, Torture Must End Now

UN to Iran: Ahmadreza Djalali Nearing Death in Solitary Confinement, Torture Must End Now

March 19, 2021

Persian version (PDF) GENEVA, UN Press Release (18 March 2021) — UN human rights experts* today demanded that Iranian authorities immediately release arbitrarily detained Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali who is reportedly in a critical condition and near death after months of prolonged solitary confinement. “Djalali’s situation ...

Joint Statement: Civil Society Groups Call on Iran to Overturn Disbandment of Prominent Charity

Joint Statement: Civil Society Groups Call on Iran to Overturn Disbandment of Prominent Charity

March 11, 2021

The Imam Ali Popular Students Relief Society (IAPSRS) is Iran’s largest independent NGO and the only one in the ...

UN: Women and Girls in Iran Treated as Second Class Citizens, Reforms Urgently Needed

UN: Women and Girls in Iran Treated as Second Class Citizens, Reforms Urgently Needed

March 9, 2021

UN Press Release, GENEVA (8 March 2021) – Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN expert says in a report to the Human Rights Council, citing domestic violence, thousands of marriages of girls aged between 10 and 14 ...

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