GENEVA – This year the United Nations Human Rights Council has created new monitoring and reporting mechanisms on the situation of human rights in Iran, the freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and discrimination against women in law and in practice. It has also appointed new independent experts ...

  (19 October 2011) – The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, presented on Wednesday his first report* to the UN General Assembly, and briefed Member States on his efforts to establish a dialogue with the country.“This ...

5 February 2013 – A group of United Nations independent experts have called on Iran to immediately release journalists detained in recent weeks, as well as to stop what it says is a broader campaign to crack down on media ahead of the June 2013 presidential elections. “The recent wave ...

GENEVA – Four United Nations experts* condemned the public execution by hanging of 17-year-old Alireza Molla Soltani, which was carried out yesterday, and the ongoing practice by the Iranian authorities, of executing people charged with drug-related offences. “We are outraged at the execution practice in Iran despite the international community’s ...

12 March 2012 “One of the most important aspects of this mandate is its capacity to give voice to those that believe themselves to be silenced by fear and lack of recourse,” says the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed. The expert ...

GENEVA (25 January 2013) – A group of United Nations independent experts on Iran, peaceful assembly and of association, extrajudicial executions, torture and minorities today urged the Iranian authorities to halt the execution of five Ahwazi activists, who are at imminent risk after their death sentences were recently upheld by ...

GENEVA (23 October 2012) – Three United Nations independent experts on the situation of human rights in Iran, summary executions and torture expressed outrage today at the execution on 23 October of Saeed Sedighi and nine others on drug-related crimes in Iran. “We deeply deplore the recent executions and the ...

GENEVA (11 February 2013) – On the second anniversary of the house arrest, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention called for ...

GENEVA (15 November 2012) – A group of United Nations experts today urged the Government of Iran to undertake a thorough, independent and impartial investigation of the death in custody of Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti, particularly the allegations of torture, and to make the result of such an investigation public. ...