provisions criminalize acts such as swearing at21 or insulting22 “the Great Prophet of Islam” as well as “sowing corruption on earth”23, for which they prescribe the death penalty. The authorities frequently resort to these provisions in order to intimidate, arrest and prosecute individuals who peacefully exercise their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly including journalists and media workers, trade unionists, and lawyers. 24 25 26 27 28 29 NGOs have reported a pattern of violations to the aforementioned human rights targeting disproportionately members of minority or marginalised groups.30 31 Despite the existence of several mechanisms that ostensibly accept complaints regarding violations of citizens' rights, such as the Article 90 Commission of the parliament and the Oversight Bodies for the exercise of Citizenship Rights in the country's provincial courts, there is no evidence to suggest that complaints to these bodies are independently reviewed and investigated.32 Recommendation Status: This recommendation has NOT been implemented. 21 Article 262 Islamic Penal Code 2013, https://iranhrdc.org/english-translation-of-books-i-ii-of-the-new-islamic-penal-code/ Article 513 Islamic Penal Code 2013, https://iranhrdc.org/islamic-penal-code-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-book-five/ 23 Article 286 Islamic Penal Code 2013 24 See more : Amnesty International, Caught in a web of repression: Iran’s Human Rights Defenders under attack, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1364462017ENGLISH.PDF 25 While no official figure exists on the number of journalists detained with charges since 2011, documentation on specific cases of journalists imprisoned by HRANA News Agency, Committee to Protect Journalists, Amnesty International, Centre for Human Rights on Iran, and Reporters Without Borders and ARTICLE19 suggest the number is over a hundred. 26 See more: ARTICLE 19, Small Media, Human Rights Activists in Iran, Impact Iran, Human Rights Committee, 129th session 22 (Geneva) 29 June – 24 July 2020, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/IRN/INT_CCPR_ICS_IRN_42315_E.pdf 27 See more: Iran Human Rights, https://www.iranhr.net/en/reports/23/ 28 See more: Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, https://iranhrdc.org/controlled-and-pursued-labor-activism-incontemporary-iran/ 29 See more: Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort, https://www.ecpm.org/wp-content/uploads/Rapport-iran-2020-gb-070420WEB.pdf 30 “Aliresza Farshi has been released from Evin,” HRNA News Agency. 11 April 2020. https://www.hranews.org/2020/hranews/a-24375/ 31 “Iran arrests 29 linked to protests against compulsory hijab laws”, New York Times, 2 February 2018. https://tinyurl.com/ybmdozuy 32 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 4