UN Renews Mandates for Iran Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has voted to renew the mandates of the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Iran and the Special Rapporteur on Iran’s human rights situation. This decision was made during a closely watched session held in Geneva, Switzerland on April 4, 2024.
UN Experts Call for Extending Mandates to Address Ongoing Atrocities in Iran
In a significant development, a group of 75 current and former United Nations special procedure mandate-holders and commissioners have urged the Human Rights Council to renew the mandates of the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI).
Global Appeal: Free 65-Year-Old Iranian Political Prisoner Ebrahim Khalil Sadiqi from Khoy Prison Solitary Confinement
The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) issued a statement on January 16, 2024, regarding the inhumane situation of Iranian political prisoner Ebrahim Khalil Sadiqi, aged 65.
In a section of the statement, it was mentioned that he is suffering from severe diabetes and has been on a hunger strike for the past two weeks, putting his health and life in danger.
International Dignitaries Unite in Addressing Iran’s Human Rights Challenges
During the fifty-fourth session of the United Nations Human Rights Council held in Geneva, a conference took place on October 5th. The conference’s primary objective was to scrutinize the state of human rights in Iran, particularly under the governance of the clerical dictatorship. Advocates for human rights utilized this platform to call for an extension of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, which aimed to investigate the harsh suppression of women-led protests that commenced in September 2022. Additionally, they urged the United Nations to initiate an inquiry into the mass execution of political detainees that occurred in Iran in 1988.
Simultaneous with deliberation on Iran UPR, MEK supporters in Switzerland demonstrate outside the UN European HQ
Simultaneous with deliberation on Iran UPR,MEK supporters in Switzerland demonstrate outside the UN European HQ On Friday November 8, 2019, MEK supporters in Switzerland held a rally outside the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva as the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group is examining the Iranian regime’s human rights record […]
Amnesty International’s call to denounce widespread human rights violations in Iran
Amnesty International’s call to denounce widespread human rights violations in Iran The human rights situation in Iran will be reviewed on Friday, November 8 at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Because of the heinous crimes of the Iranian regime, it is imperative that human consciences and human rights activists take advantage of […]
Torture in Iran still common despite official ban
Torture in Iran still common despite official ban By Ali Latifi While the Iranian Constitution officially forbids torture and Iran is signed up to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which also forbids torture, torture and corporal punishment are common practices in Iran’s prisons and also mandated by law. The regime officially denies the […]
Enforced Disappearances in Iran
Victims of enforced disappearances in Iran reveal the Iranian regime’s human right’s record and its barbarism to the world. In the summer of 1988, Ruhollah Khomeini, then-supreme leader of the Iranian regime, issued a Fatwa to massacre thousands of political prisoners, most of them MEK members and supporters. The victims of the massacre were buried […]
Convention of the Rights of the Child perishes under the Iran regime rule
Convention of the Rights of the Child perishes under the Iran regime rule By Ali Latifi In 1959 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Iran regime signed the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) in 1991 and ratified it in 1994. Aware of the fact […]
Human rights situation in Iran, 2018- Amnesty International report
Human rights situation in Iran, 2018- Amnesty International report Amnesty International says that the human rights situation in Iran, 2018 has severely deteriorated;”Torture and execution continued, the authorities intensified their crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, Labor rights were violated and dissenters were imprisoned.” Amnesty International report on human […]
