Concluding Observations Committee on the Rights of the Child CRC/C/IRN/CO/3-4 para
92(f)
Full recommendation:
Ensure procedural guarantees to preserve the privacy of children in conflict with the law
throughout the investigation and trial proceedings.
Assessment using Impact Iran human rights indicators1
Although the Law on the Protection of Children and Adolescents (adopted in June 2020) protects
the identity and privacy of individuals under the age of 18,2 Iranian law does not present any
procedural safeguards to protect the privacy of child defendants throughout the investigation and
trial proceedings.
In its National Report to the Universal Periodic Review, the Government of the Islamic Republic
of Iran stipulated that it launched the Sanaa Website “in order to provide access to the dispute
parties and their lawyers to the contents of court files and to protect the privacy of the parties and
to speed up the proceedings”.3 There is no readily available information as to what extent such
website would provide procedural guarantees to preserve the privacy of children in conflict with
the law throughout the investigation and trial proceedings.
There is no independent data protection authority with powers of investigation in the Islamic
Republic of Iran. The Parliament’s Article 90 Commission is in charge of investigating
complaints from citizens made against the operations of the Parliament itself, the executive and
the judiciary.4 There is no publicly available information on data relating to the number of
complaints received and investigated vis-à-vis cases of violations of the rights to privacy of
children in conflict with the law in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including violations of their
right to privacy throughout legal proceedings. There is no National Human Rights Institution in
the Islamic Republic of Iran that is competent to receive and address complaints of violations of
children’s rights. Although there is no readily available data regarding cases of violations of the
right to privacy of children in conflict with the law throughout legal proceedings, the absence of
legal and procedural safeguards may suggest that such cases are likely to occur.
Recommendation Status:
This recommendation has NOT been implemented.
1
CCPR.17.1.S.1; CCPR.17.1.P.1; CCPR.17.1.P.2; CCPR.17.1.O.1
See Article 18 and 19, Law on the Protection of Children and Adolescents, https://shenasname.ir/laws/6788
3
National Report, UPR 2019, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1
4
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, https://iranhrdc.org/internal-regulation-on-the-commission-of-article-90-of-theconstitution/
2
1