C. The Special Rapporteur further reiterates her recommendation to abolish the revolutionary tribunals and religious courts in line with the recommendations made by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention following its visit to the country. Ad-hoc revolutionary tribunals and special religious courts, established in the aftermath of the revolution, are still in place today in the Islamic Republic of Iran.43 The Law on Formation of General and Revolutionary Courts was adopted in 1994,44 subsequently amended in 2002.45 The Code of Criminal Procedure for General and Revolutionary Courts was enacted in 1999.46 Despite its stipulated three-year trial period, it remained in place until the entry into force of the new Code of Criminal Procedure (CCP) in 2015.47 Revolutionary courts are among Iran’s criminal courts listed under Article 294 of the new CCP (2015) and, according to Article 297, are to be established in the capital of each of the state’s provinces.48 Revolutionary courts have jurisdiction over crimes against national and external security, moharebeh (“enmity against God”), efsad-e fel-arz (“corruption on earth”), baghi (“armed rebellion against the state”),49 “gathering and colluding against the Islamic Republic”, armed activities, arson and “destruction and plunder of resources with the purpose of opposing the system”, “insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic and the Supreme Leader”, all smuggling of restricted items and drug-related offences and other offences whose investigation fall under the revolutionary court’s jurisdiction.50 In 2018, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran stated that the pattern of reported violations related to due process and fair trial in the country often occurred within the context of revolutionary courts,51 which reportedly issue the most death sentences.52 Similarly, NGO reports seem to suggest that trials before revolutionary courts disproportionately target civil rights activists and members of religious minorities such as the Baha’is.53 Additionally, recent reported cases of 43 NGO joint submission to the Human Rights Committee from the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, Impact Iran, Human Rights Activists in Iran, 2020, https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CCPR/Shared%20Documents/IRN/INT_CCPR_ICS_IRN_42313_E.pdf 44 The Law on Formation of General and Revolutionary Courts, 13 July 1994, available at rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/90416 45 Amendments to the Law on Formation of General and Revolutionary Courts, 3 November 2002, available at https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/93837 46 The Code of Criminal Procedure for General and Revolutionary Courts, 19 September 1999, available at https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/93219 47 Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1327082016ENGLISH.PDF 48 Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, https://iranhrdc.org/amendments-to-the-islamic-republic-of-irans-code-of-criminalprocedure-part-1/ 49 Defined under Articles 279 to 285 and Articles 286 to 288 of the Islamic Penal Code (2013), Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, https://iranhrdc.org/english-translation-of-books-i-ii-of-the-new-islamic-penal-code/ 50 Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1327082016ENGLISH.PDF 51 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, March 2018, https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/37/68 52 See Iran Human Rights https://iranhr.net/en/articles/2839/ 53 EN-HRANA, https://www.en-hrana.org/?s=revolutionary+court 5