Special Rapporteur on Iran

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Iran: UN experts concerned at barring of women presidential candidates and freedom restrictions

A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today warned that unreasonable limitations placed on the right of Iranian citizens to stand for Presidential office, discrimination against women candidates for elections and ongoing restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, constitute a serious violations of rights guaranteed by international law.

Reports (Shaheed)

March 2013 report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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This report is the second to be submitted to the Human Rights Council during its 22nd session, pursuant to Council resolution 16/9, and communicates developments in the human rights situation of the Islamic Republic of Iran that have transpired since the submission of the Special Rapporteur’s second interim report to the 67th session of the General Assembly (A/67/369) in October 2012.

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