Iran Fact Finding Archive for Action (in Farsi, Haghighat-Yab) aims to accelerate the process of truth- finding. It will achieve this by increasing public access to documents and evidence on…
At its 117th session, the Working Group decided to transmit 261 newly reported cases of enforced disappearance to 19 States: Algeria (13), Bangladesh (1), Burundi (12), China (1), Democratic People’s…
The Special Rapporteur has observed a worrying picture developing in the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran since the issuance of her last report in August 2017.…
The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution A/RES/72/189, which requested the Secretary-General to submit an interim report on the situation of human rights in Iran to the…
Between its 112th and 113th sessions, the Working Group transmitted 91 cases under its urgent action procedure to Bahrain (1), Bangladesh (2), China (1), the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
The present document reflects the communications and cases examined and other activities carried out by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances at its 111th session held in Seoul:
Submission to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances Throughout the 1980s, the Iranian authorities arbitrarily detained, tortured, disappeared and killed thousands of people for their political opinions…