Human Rights Abuses Increase In Iran In 2012

Human rights violations in Iran spiralled in 2012, a United Nations monitor said Monday in a report spotlighting abuses including repression of freedom of speech, torture and secret executions. “There has been an apparent increase in the degree of seriousness of human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Ahmed Shaheed said in his report to the UN Human Rights Council. Shaheed highlighted “frequent and disconcerting” reports about “punitive state action” against a number of groups, including the jailing of opposition politicians, journalists and human rights campaigners. He also expressed concern about rights violations affecting women and religious and ethnic minorities, and retaliatory action against individuals that Tehran suspects of cooperating with UN monitors. Such abuses remain “widespread”, “systemic” and “systematic”, said Shaheed, former foreign minister of the Maldives who was named the UN’s Iran monitor in 2011. Shaheed, who is forbidden from visiting the country, said he regretted Tehran’s unwillingness to cooperate with him, despite his repeated efforts.

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