city or region’. This article fails to include mentions of any protection or appeal process nor of
possible compensation for victims of forced evictions under the law.
There are no reports of any appeals made in order to prevent evictions or demolitions, despite the
fact that it is possible to appeal such actions, and there are no legal procedures one can use to
seek compensation after an eviction. Similarly, there are no published report of rehabilitated or
resettled individuals.
There is a lack of recent reports of major forced evictions in regions inhabited by ethnic
minorities, yet non-governmental sources and UN special procedures have reported on cases of
mass evictions such as the displacement of between 200.000 and 250.000 Arabs in Khuzestan
due to government development projects in 2005.6 In the same year, leaked government
documents revealed the state’s policy to alter the demographic composition of Khuzestan
through transferring a non-Arab population into the area.
More recently, there are reports of cases where authorities have attempted to dismantle informal
housing areas through demolitions and forced evictions due to claims that their housing buildings
had been built on illegal terrain, resulting in civilian causalities as was the case with the death of
an elderly woman in the Kurdish-majority region of Kermanshah.7
As forced evictions has not ceased in Iran, this recommendation has not been implemented.
Recommendation Status:
This recommendation has NOT been implemented.
6
Minority Rights Group, https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Rights-Denied-Violations-against-ethnic-andreligious-minorities-in-Iran.pdf
7
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/06/02/Elderly-woman-dies-in-Iran-amid-forced-eviction-destruction-ofher-home
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