In his report to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-second session (A/HRC/22/56), the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran focused primarily on laws and procedures that governed the administration of justice in the country. He joined the Human Rights Committee in expressing concern about aspects of the country’s legal framework that undermined national and international principles on fair trial standards, including concerns about access to legal assistance of one’s own choosing, the right to a public hearing before an independent judiciary that presumed the innocence of the accused and protections for juvenile offenders. He echoed the Committee’s recommendation that the Government reconsider legal provisions that dictate criminal procedure (CCPR/C/IRN/CO/3), recommended that the Government reexamine its use of capital punishment and urged it to halt executions for crimes not considered the “most serious”, such as drug-related offences.
https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g16/105/97/pdf/g1610597.pdf
