UN experts urge Iran to ensure protection for human rights defenders
11:14 - 6 May 2012
Kurdpa: A group of independent United Nations experts have condemned the ongoing arrests and harsh sentencing of human rights defenders and their lawyers in Iran.
The Special Rapporteurs are urging the Iranian government to provide adequate protection to human rights activists.
The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed said in a statement that the convictions and harsh sentences are a serious setback for the country when it comes to human rights.
The Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, said activists must be allowed to carry out their work without facing intimidation, harassment, arrest, and prosecution.
The UN independent experts called for the immediate release all those who have been arrested and detained for peacefully promoting human rights in Iran.
The United States also called on the Iranian government to release all jailed journalists on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists as of December last year of the179 jailed journalists across the world, of which 42 were in Iran.
US State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland also had called upon the Iranian Government to release Kaboudvand and the some 90 other journalist it’s currently holding in Iranian prisons.
The Special Rapporteurs are urging the Iranian government to provide adequate protection to human rights activists.
The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed said in a statement that the convictions and harsh sentences are a serious setback for the country when it comes to human rights.
The Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, said activists must be allowed to carry out their work without facing intimidation, harassment, arrest, and prosecution.
The UN independent experts called for the immediate release all those who have been arrested and detained for peacefully promoting human rights in Iran.
The United States also called on the Iranian government to release all jailed journalists on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists as of December last year of the179 jailed journalists across the world, of which 42 were in Iran.
US State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland also had called upon the Iranian Government to release Kaboudvand and the some 90 other journalist it’s currently holding in Iranian prisons.
