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(c) Stoning as a method of execution, and the continued issuing of sentences
of execution by stoning;
(d) Execution of persons who were under the age of 18 at the time their
offence was committed, contrary to the obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran
under article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child4 and article 6 of the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;2
(e) Arrests, violent repression and sentencing of women exercising their
right to peaceful assembly, a campaign of intimidation against women’s human
rights defenders, and continuing discrimination against women and girls in law and
in practice;
(f) Increasing discrimination and other human rights violations against
persons belonging to religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minorities, recognized or
otherwise, including, inter alia, Arabs, Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds, Christians, Jews,
Sufis and Sunni Muslims and their defenders, and, in particular, attacks on Baha’is
and their faith in State-sponsored media, increasing evidence of efforts by the State
to identify and monitor Baha’is, preventing members of the Baha’i faith from
attending university and from sustaining themselves economically, and an increase
in cases of arbitrary arrest and detention;
(g) Ongoing, systemic and serious restrictions of freedom of peaceful
assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression, including those
imposed on the media and trade unions, and increasing harassment, intimidation and
persecution of political opponents and human rights defenders from all sectors of
Iranian society, including arrests and violent repression of labour leaders, labour
members peacefully assembling and students;
(h) Persistent failure to uphold due process of law rights, and violation of the
rights of detainees, including the systematic and arbitrary use of prolonged solitary
confinement;
Calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to respect
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fully its human rights obligations and in this regard to implement fully the abovementioned resolutions, and in particular:
(a) To eliminate, in law and in practice, amputations, flogging and other
forms of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
(b) To abolish, in law and in practice, public executions and other executions
carried out in the absence of respect for internationally recognized safeguards;
(c) To abolish, in law and in practice, the use of stoning as a method of
execution;
(d) To abolish, as called for by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in
its report of January 2005, 5 executions of persons who at the time of their offence
were under the age of 18;
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(e) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other
human rights violations against women and girls;
(f) To eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other
human rights violations against persons belonging to religious, ethnic, linguistic or
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2
See CRC/C/146.