International Reactions

no stranger to cruel and unusual punishment; indeed, it is the world leader in executions per capita, but throughout 2016,...

Press briefing notes on Iran and Bahrain Spokesperson for UNHCHR: Rupert Colville Location:      Geneva Date: 17 January 2017 We call...

Essential human rights, and particularly the right to free speech, were under attack in Iran in 2016, Human Rights Watch...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran to the seventieth...

A European Parliamentary Committee has urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to press for information on a missing...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran has expressed alarm over the health of several Iranian political...

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran presented to the Human...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran to the thirty...

The UN General Assembly adopted its 63rd resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran, on December 19, 2016. As reported...