confinement, sometimes lasting several months are regular in the Islamic Republic of Iran. 10 11
12 13 14
Reports of cases of torture in the Islamic Republic of Iran are regular.15 16 Amnesty International
reported widespread and systematic use of torture by Iranian authorities against protestors during
and after the November 2019 protests.17 As of December 2020, there was no readily available
information that might have indicated that Iranian authorities have opened investigations into
allegations of torture committed by police, security and intelligence officers and prison officials
in the context of the protests that took place in November 2019.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has not ensured that an inquiry was opened for each allegation of
torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in detention facilities, and that perpetrators of
such acts were prosecuted and punished appropriately.
B. The Islamic Republic of Iran should ensure that effective reparation, including
adequate compensation, is granted to every victim.
Despite the existence of several mechanisms that ostensibly accept complaints regarding
violations of citizens' rights, such as the Parliament’s Commission Article 90 procedure
(established under Article 90 of the Constitution which offers citizens a mechanism to file
complaints against any of the three branches of power) and the Oversight Bodies for the exercise
of citizenship rights in the country's provincial courts, there is no evidence to suggest that
complaints submitted before these bodies are independently reviewed and investigated.18
Additionally and as aforementioned, the absence of a crime of torture in itself under Iranian law
prevents prosecution, which is solely limited to cases of torture which are provided for under the
law, therefore hindering access to justice for victims.
10
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, https://iranhrdc.org/rights-disregarded-prisons-in-the-islamic-republic-ofiran/#2.1.1
11
Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1310212019ENGLISH.pdf
12
En-HRANA, https://www.en-hrana.org/abdul-sattar-sheikh-transferred-solitary-confinement-evinprison?hilite=%27solitary%27%2C%27confinement%27%2C%27evin%27%2C%27prison%27 and
https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/iran0108/iran0108web.pdf
13
Human Rights Watch, https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/06/iran-free-students-long-solitary
14
Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1335042021ENGLISH.pdf
15
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, March 2018,
https://undocs.org/A/HRC/37/68
16
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, January 2020,
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/IR/Report_of_the_Special_Rapporteur_on_the_situation_of_human_rights_in_the_
Islamic_Republic_of_IranA4361.pdf
17
Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1328912020ENGLISH.PDF
18
Joint submission to the Human Rights Committee, Abdorrahman Center, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC),
Impact Iran and Human Rights Activists in Iran, 2020,
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT%2fCCPR%2fICS%2fIRN%2f42313
&Lang=en
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