United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/65/226
Distr.: General
10 February 2011
Sixty-fifth session
Agenda item 68 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 2010
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/65/456/Add.3)]
65/226. Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The General Assembly,
Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, as well as the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, 1 the International Covenants on Human Rights 2 and
other international human rights instruments,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the situation of human rights in the
Islamic Republic of Iran, the most recent of which is resolution 64/176 of
18 December 2009,
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
1.
resolution 64/176, 3 which highlights further negative developments in the situation
of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including an intensified crackdown
on human rights defenders and reports of excessive use of force, arbitrary
detentions, unfair trials and allegations of torture;
Expresses deep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights
2.
violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran relating to, inter alia:
(a) Torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
including flogging and amputations;
(b) The continuing high incidence of and dramatic increase in death
sentences carried out in the absence of internationally recognized safeguards,
including public executions, notwithstanding a circular from the former head of the
judiciary prohibiting public executions;
(c) The continuing imposition and carrying out of the death penalty against
persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18, in violation of the
obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran under the Convention on the Rights of
the Child 4 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;2
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Resolution 217 A (III).
Resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
3
A/65/370.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, No. 27531.
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