Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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A document of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 4Human rights situations that require the Council's attention, published in 2025.

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Accountability Civil and Political Rights Fact-Finding Missions Human Rights Iran (Islamic Republic Of)Special Rapporteurs

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Deplores the widespread, repeated and ongoing human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to address systematic impunity by establishing a system of accountability in line with international law, including constitutional, legislative and administrative reforms, and to ensure the complete independence of the judiciary and effective remedies for victims;

Expresses deep concern at the findings of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding human rights violations and crimes against humanity, including ongoing persecutory conduct against women, girls and others supporting human rights in the context of the protests, and calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to end the persistent discrimination against women and girls;

Calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and violence on the basis of thought, conscience, religion and belief, including against persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious or belief minorities, as well as against persons belonging to ethnic, linguistic or other minorities, including multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination;

Also calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to create a safe and enabling environment for civil society, human rights defenders, journalists and media workers, including by guaranteeing and upholding the right to freedom of opinion and expression, both online and offline, and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and to release persons arbitrarily detained for exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Urges the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to take all legislative, administrative and other measures necessary, in accordance with its international human rights obligations, to ensure that no one is sentenced to death or executed for offences that do not meet the threshold of the most serious crimes or for alleged offences committed before the age of 18 years, and to ensure that all criminal convictions and sentences are handed down by courts that are competent, independent and impartial, following proceedings that strictly respect fair trial guarantees;

Decides to extend the mandate of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran for a further period of one year in order to continue to monitor the ongoing situation of human rights, including civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, and to measure progress in the implementation of recommendations, and requests the Special Rapporteur to submit a report to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-first session and to the General Assembly at its eightieth session;

Also decides that the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran, established following the protests that began on 16 September 2022, should continue for one year with the following mandate:

To thoroughly and independently monitor and investigate allegations of recent and ongoing serious human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran;

To establish the facts, circumstances and structural causes of such violations, including discrimination on grounds of gender, ethnicity, religion or belief and political views;

To collect, consolidate, analyse, record and preserve evidence of such violations, to maintain and preserve the evidence that it has collected to date, and to ensure that all evidence is accessible for use in any independent legal proceedings;

Requests the Fact-Finding Mission to present a report to the Human Rights Council at its sixty-first session during a joint interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur, and to present an oral update, to be followed by an interactive dialogue, on the implementation of the mandate to the General Assembly at its eightieth session;

Calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate fully with the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission, to grant them unhindered access to the country, and to provide all information necessary to allow the fulfilment of their mandates, in line with its standing invitation;

Encourages the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission to cooperate closely, with a view to promoting synergy;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission with the resources necessary to fulfil their mandates.

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