Iran: Submission to the Human Rights Committee for Human Rights Committee session

The Iran team at Amnesty International published a report the submission on Iran to the Human Rights Committee. It contains a section on human rights violations on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity. It has been made public today and Iran's report will be considered on 17 October.

"As the Committee has already received several briefings by other NGOs, many of which mirror some of Amnesty Internationals own concerns, this briefing aims to highlight only certain egregious violations of the Covenant and includes some of Amnesty Internationals key recommendations to the Iranian government.

The Iranian authorities have not permitted Amnesty International to visit Iran since April 1979. Despite this, the organization has continued to monitor and document serious human rights violations in Iran. The organization has published numerous reports on the 18 years since the HRC considered Irans second periodic report detailing extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings; arbitrary arrests and detentions, sometimes in conditions amounting to enforced disappearance; torture and other ill-treatment, including the use of torturous and cruel punishments; unfair trials; and the extensive application of the death penalty, including against juvenile offenders and for crimes such as adultery and vaguely worded non-violent political offences that do not meet the criteria of most serious crimes, as well as the use of stoning as a method of execution. Amnesty International has also documented discrimination and other abuses against women and members of certain ethnic and religious minorities, and serious violations of the rights to movement, freedom of belief, expression, assembly and association..."

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