killings and desecration of cemeteries, particularly against Baha’is, have not been investigated by the Iranian authorities.44 45 In 2016, the Iranian High Council for Human Rights issued a booklet entitled “Some measures taken by the Islamic Republic of Iran on demands of ethnic groups, religious minorities and sects”.46 The same year, President Hassan Rouhani issued a Charter on Citizens’ Rights, a government-endorsed declaration providing guidance for the implementation of the principles, norms and laws stipulated in the Constitution. 47 In 2019, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, despite noting that measures have been taken to improve the situation of minorities, said that they “do not alter the fundamentally discriminatory nature of the Constitution, legislation and Islamic Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in particular in relation to the country’s unrecognised minority communities.”48 In light of the above, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does not fully respect the rights of religious and ethnic minorities and does not ensure that all those who reside in the country have equal protection before the law, regardless of ethnicity, religion or belief.49 All prisoners detained for having exercised their right to freedom of religion or belief have not been released.50 Recommendation Status: This recommendation has NOT been implemented. 44 Joint submission to the Human Rights Committee from All Human Rights for All in Iran, Association for Human Rights in Kurdistan – Geneva, Association for the Human Rights of the Azerbaijani People in Iran, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, OutRight International, Siamak Pourzand Foundation, Small Media, Impact Iran, 2020, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/IRN/INT_CCPR_NGO_IRN_42317_E.pdf 45 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 18 July 2019, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N19/222/62/PDF/N1922262.pdf?OpenElement 46 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 18 July 2019, https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en/A/74/188 47 Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Islamic Republic of Iran, 27 December 2019, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/43/12 48 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 18 July 2019, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N19/222/62/PDF/N1922262.pdf?OpenElement 49 See more : Small Media, https://smallmedia.org.uk/work/national-fabric-irans-ethnic-minorities and https://smallmedia.org.uk/work/heretics-irans-religious-minorities KMMK-G, https://kmmk-ge.org/sd/annual-report-2020/ 50 See more: United for Iran, https://ipa.united4iran.org/en/prisoner/ 6