Additionally, numerous reports have documented deaths and cases of ill-treatment of persons
detained during and in the aftermath of the November 2019 protests, including deprivation of
food and sleep.9 10
A report published by the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center in partnership with the Human
Rights Activists News Agency found that conditions of detentions have further deteriorated since
the COVID-19 pandemic started. Prisons’ overcrowding facilitated the proliferation of COVID19 cases in several prisons.11 Such concerns have been echoed by the Special Rapporteur on the
situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran in his report published in July 2020.12
In its 2019 National Report to the Universal Periodic Review, the Government of the Islamic
Republic of Iran reported that the Citizenship Rights Watch Board carries periodic inspections
within prisons and detention centers. According to the Government the body has “received and
handled 3,275 complaints and reports, through the complaint system, in relation with civil rights
violations. Between 2015 and 2018, a number of 28,504 inspections were carried out to
prosecutors' offices, prisons and detention centers.”13 There is no readily available information
about the outcome of such inspections and whether they led to the improvements of detention
conditions.
Above mentioned information suggest that the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has not
ensured that prisoners are provided with food of appropriate nutritional value, quantity and quality
and that drinking water is made readily available to all prisoners.
Recommendation Status:
This recommendation has NOT been implemented.
9
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
10
Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/2891/2020/en/
11
HRANA, https://www.en-hrana.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/COVID19_FEAR_IN_IRANS_PRISONS_.pdf
12
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, July 2020,
https://undocs.org/A/75/213
13
National Report, UPR 2019, Islamic Republic of Iran, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/WG.6/34/IRN/1
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