A/RES/80/222
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
cemeteries and to ensure that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience
and religion or belief, including the freedom to have, to change or to adopt a religion
or belief of their choice, in accordance with its obligations under the Internati onal
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
28. Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to eliminate, in law and in practice,
all forms of discrimination on the basis of thought, conscience, religion or belief,
including restrictions contained in article 499 bis and article 500 bis of the Islamic
Penal Code, the continuing enforcement of which has significantly escalated
discrimination and violence, as well as economic restrictions, such as the closure,
destruction or confiscation of businesses, land and properties, the cancellation of
licences and the denial of employment in certain public and private sectors, including
government or military positions and elected office, the denial of and restrictions on
access to education, including for members of the Baha’i and other religious
minorities, and other acts involving human rights violations or abuses against persons
belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities, condemns without
reservation heightened antisemitism, the targeted attacks on Jewish communities and
any denial of the Holocaust, and calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to end
ongoing systemic impunity for those who commit crimes against persons belonging
to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities;
29. Expresses serious concern at the lack of accountability of the Government
of the Islamic Republic of Iran in response to long-standing human rights violations
involving the Iranian judiciary and security agencies, including ongoing enforced
disappearances, extrajudicial executions and the destruction of evidence and grave
sites, whereby the lack of accountability of authorities enables the potential for
violations to reoccur and persist, as well as ongoing systemic impunity for human
rights violations, and expresses concern about reports of incitement to discrimination,
hostility and violence in State-linked Persian and Arabic media outlets, echoing the
1988 reported summary and arbitrary executions;
30. Expresses particular concern at the failure of the Islamic Republic of Iran
to conduct prompt, effective, independent, transparent and impartial investigations
that align with international standards in response to all allegations of human rights
violations, including disproportionate use of force, arbitrary arrest and detention, and
torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including
sexual and gender-based violence, and the failure to respect fair trial guarantees and
due process, and the use of torture, including to extract confessions, and enforced
disappearances as experienced by human rights defenders, peaceful protesters,
political prisoners and dual or foreign nationals, among others, and reaffirms the call
for the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to end ongoing systemic impunity
for all human rights violations, to launch a comprehensive accountability process,
including legal reforms, and to ensure the availability of effective remedies for
victims, survivors and all those seeking accountability, truth and justice for human
rights violations;
31. Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to implement its obligations under
those human rights treaties to which it is already a Party, to withdraw any reservations
that are imprecise or could be considered incompatible with the object and purpose
of the treaty, to act upon the concluding observations concerning the Islamic Republic
of Iran adopted by the bodies of the international human rights treaties to which it is
a Party and to consider ratifying or acceding to the international human rights treat ies
to which it is not already a Party;
8/10
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