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(e) 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 the arrest and
detention of seven Baha’i leaders without charge or access to legal representation;
(f) Ongoing, systemic and serious restrictions of freedom of peaceful
assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression, including those
imposed on the media, Internet users 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, in particular with
regard to the 2008 Majles electoral process;
(g) Severe limitations and restrictions on freedom of religion and belief,
including the provision in the proposed draft penal code that sets out a mandatory
death sentence for apostasy;
(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 address the
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substantive concerns highlighted in the report of the Secretary-General and the
specific calls to action found in previous resolutions of the General Assembly, and
to respect fully its human rights obligations, in law and in practice, 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, pursuant to its obligations under article 37 of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child 4 and article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights,2 executions of persons who at the time of their offence were under
the age of 18;
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To abolish the use of stoning as a method of execution;
(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
other minorities, recognized or otherwise, to refrain from monitoring individuals on
the basis of their religious beliefs, and to ensure that access of minorities to
education and employment is on par with that of all Iranians;
(g) To implement, inter alia, the 1996 report of the Special Rapporteur on
religious intolerance, 5 which recommended ways in which the Islamic Republic of
Iran could emancipate the Baha’i community;
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
See E/CN.4/1996/95/Add.2.