A/HRC/RES/52/27
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 April 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-second session
27 February–4 April 2023
Agenda item 4
Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 4 April 2023
52/27.
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international human rights
instruments,
Recalling all relevant resolutions adopted by the Human Rights Council and the General
Assembly, particularly the most recent ones, including Council resolutions 49/24 of 1 April 2022
and S-35/1 of 24 November 2022, and Assembly resolution 77/228 of 15 December 2022 on the
situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and regretting the lack of cooperation of
the Islamic Republic of Iran with the requests of the Council and the Assembly made in those
resolutions,
Welcoming the report and recommendations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran submitted to the Human Rights Council, 1 and
emphasizing that those recommendations should be given due consideration,
Deeply regretting the lack of access permitted to the Special Rapporteur to travel to the
Islamic Republic of Iran,
Expressing deep concern at the continued violations of a wide range of civil, political,
economic, social and cultural rights, as highlighted by the Special Rapporteur and in his reports, and
that sustained and systematic impunity for gross violations of human rights and an absence of
accountability in the Islamic Republic of Iran create an enabling environment for perpetrators,
violate victims’ right to an effective remedy and perpetuate cycles of violence,
Expressing deep concern also at the widespread violence and discrimination in law and in
practice affecting in particular women and girls, children, persons belonging to ethnic, linguistic and
recognized or unrecognized religious or belief minorities, human rights defenders, lawyers,
journalists and media workers, and persons exercising their right to freedom of expression and
opinion, online and offline, and their right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association,
Alarmed at the continued reports, including in the latest report of the Special Rapporteur, of
peaceful protests being violently repressed, of a large number of protesters being arbitrarily arrested
and detained, tortured, ill-treated and killed, and of individuals being sentenced to death and
executed in relation to their involvement in the protest movements,
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A/HRC/52/67.
GE.23-06858(E)