Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran A/RES/80/222 expresses grave concern that the Law on Youthful Population and Protection of the Family undermines the exercise of the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health for women and girls; 15. Notes the temporary suspension of the Law on Protecting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab, expresses serious concern regarding its potential future implementation, including its enforcement of compliance online and offline and criminal, administrative and financial consequences for non‑compliance, including fines, job dismissal, travel bans, the confiscation of assets and restricted access to education and healthcare, and regarding the law’s prescription of the use of severe penalties such as imprisonment, flogging and the death penalty for individuals accused of challenging hijab regulation, also expresses serious concern at ongoing forced compliance and surveillance of compulsory veiling laws and policies, including harassment of women and girls for non‑compliance, and the use of facial recognition and surveillance technologies at universities, resulting in denial of entry, withdrawal from courses and expulsion for non‑compliance and human rights activism, further ex presses serious concern that such discriminatory compulsory veiling laws and policies fundamentally undermine the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls, inter alia their rights to freedom of religion or belief, opinion and expression and freedom of movement, as well as economic, social and cultural rights, and reaffirms the call for the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to permanently repeal all such laws and policies; 16. Expresses serious concern at the widespread restrictions on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association and freedom of opinion and expression, both online and offline, and calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately and unconditionally release persons arbitrarily detained for the exercise of their human rights and fundamental freedoms, including human rights defenders, journalists and all those who remain under detention for taking part in peaceful protests; 17. Condemns the measures used by the Islamic Republic of Iran to repress protests, including the protests that began in September 2022, notably the use of the death penalty against those connected to the protests, arbitrary detention, disproportionate force, including the use of force resulting in the death and injury, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment during arrest and throughout detention, physical violence and psychological abuse in detention, including sexual and gender-based violence, and judicial and other forms of harassment of human rights defenders and those associated with the protests, including repression online, calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to uphold the human rights of those involved in protests and to rescind unduly harsh sentences, including those involving the death penalty and long-term internal exile, emphasizes commitments made by judicial authorities to review cases of those arrested, also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to end reprisals against human rights defenders, wherever they may occur, including reprisals against women human rights defenders, children, the families of protesters, journalists and other media workers covering protests, lawyers who represent or seek to represent protesters, and those who cooperate or attempt to cooperate with the United Nations human rights mechanisms, and re-emphasizes the importance of prompt, independent, impartial, effective and transparent investigations into all instances of human rights vi olations and of holding those responsible to account to ensure justice and an end to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s impunity for violations; 18. Urges the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to address violations of the rights to social security and to just and favourable conditions of work, to address wage arrears, denial of employee protections and benefits, unjustified 25-20984 5/10