professional issues is the Bar Association”. 15 However, lawyers have reportedly been prosecuted for representing prisoners of conscience or political and “security” prisoners.16 Human rights lawyers defending human rights defenders have reportedly been harassed, arrested and detained in the Islamic Republic of Iran.17 18 19 20 The appointment of judges in Iran is not transparent nor based on merit. Judges, prosecutors, as well as lawyers, including their families and professional associates, have not been protected against all forms of violence, threat, retaliation, intimidation and harassment as a result of discharging their functions. Recommendation Status: This recommendation has NOT been implemented. 15 Lawyers for lawyers, https://lawyersforlawyers.org/wp-content/uploads/Oral-statement-Iran-L4L-LRWC-19-3-2015.pdf; Meeting the members of the board of Directors of Bar Associations, February 2014) See: http://www.rouhani.ir/event.php?event_id=310 16 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, May 2015, 17 OHCHR News, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24333&LangID=E 18 Center for Human Rights in Iran, https://iranhumanrights.org/2020/06/list-of-attorneys-imprisoned-in-iran-for-defendinghuman-rights/ 19 Human Rights Watch, https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/12/13/iran-escalating-crackdown-lawyers 20 See more: Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, https://www.iranrights.org/newsletter/issue/97 3

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