Iran Human Rights report contradicts reality

The Human Rights report on Iran by UN's special rapporteur is unrealistic, spokesman of Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Kazem Jalali said, Fars reported.

Jalali believes that Human Rights organizations in the world take a hostile position towards Iran. He added, that the mentioned report by UN's special rapporteur Ahmad Shaheed has several problems.

"UN special rapporteur Ahmad Shaheed's report has several problems," Jalali added. "Human Rights organizations treat Iran unfairly, showing no fair position and realism".

In 2011 Ahmed Shaheed published a report on human rights in Iran, according to which, the human rights violations appear to be increasing with political activists, journalists and others often facing persecution.

Shaheed said in a report to the U.N. General Assembly that the Iranian government had not allowed him to visit Iran while making his assessment.

Shaheed has "catalogued an increasing trend of alleged violations of the fundamental rights of the people, guaranteed under international law, and stresses the need for greater transparency from the Iranian authorities".

Among the abuses by the Iranian justice system that he has investigated are "torture, cruel, or degrading treatment of detainees, the imposition of the death penalty in the absence of proper judicial safeguards, (and) the status of women," according to the report.

Shaheed's report also criticized the detention conditions for opposition leaders, describing their situations as "deeply disturbing".

In 2009, the powerful opposition unrest broke out in Tehran after the announcement of the results of the presidential election held on June 12. The election was won by the current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. One of the losing candidates - reformer Mousavi - accused authorities of rigging the voting results and called upon people to hold protests.

According to official figures, the clashes killed 20 people. The unofficial count was near 150 deaths. About 1,032 demonstrators were arrested, most of whom were subsequently released.

In September 2010 the U.S. imposed sanctions against an entire group of senior Iranian officials with the wording "for consistent and serious violations of human rights" in accordance with U.S President Barack Obama's decision. Iran's U.N. mission did not respond immediately to a request for a reaction to Shaheed's report.


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