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QUESTION OF THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO COLONIAL AND OTHER DEPENDENT COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES

Final Report on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic
of Iran by the Special Representative of the Commission on Human
Rights, Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, pursuant to Commission
resolution 1992/67 of 4 March 1992

CONTENTS

Paragraphs

INTRODUCTION 1 - 4

 

I. COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN AND THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE 5 - 18

 

II. INFORMATION RECEIVED BY THE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE 19 - 274
A. Right to life 20 - 97
B. Enforced or involuntary disappearances 98 - 101
C. Right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 102 - 124
D. Administration of justice 125 - 174
E. Freedom of expression, opinion and the press 175 - 188
F. Political rights 189 - 195
G. Situation of women 196 - 206
H. Right to work 207 - 209
I. Right to education 210 - 213
J. Right of everyone to own property 214 - 217
K. Freedom of religion and the situation of the Baha'i community 218 - 257
L. The events of 5 April 1992 258 - 259
M. The war on drug traffic 260
N. The right to leave one's country and to return 261 - 263
O. The situation of children 264 - 267
P. Situation of refugees 268 - 272
Q. Victims of chemical-weapon attacks 273 - 274

 

III. CONSIDERATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS 275 - 317
A. General considerations 275 - 280
B. The right to life 281 - 286
C. Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 287 - 291
D. The guarantees of due process of law 292 - 294
E. The right to security 295
F. Freedom of expression, opinion and the press 296 - 300
G. Right of association 301 - 302
H. Suspension of the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 303 - 307
I. Religious freedom and situation of the Baha'is 308 - 311
J. Situation of women 312 - 313
K. Clemency measures 314
L. The problem of the refugees 315 - 317

 

IV. CONCLUSIONS 318 - 324

 

V. RECOMMENDATIONS 325 - 329

Annexes

I. List of prisoners presented to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Special Representative in a memorandum dated 25 September 1992

 

II. Letter from Mr. Amir Entezam, former Vice-Prime Minister and spokesman of the First Provisional Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to the Special Representative of the Commission