• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
  • WORLD DEMOCRACY
  • POLITICAL ART
  • more
    • election technology
    • money politics
    • political dissidents
    • THIRD PARTY
      • third party central
      • green party
      • justice party
      • libertarian party
    • voting methods
  • DC INFO
    • author central
    • about
    • contact
    • privacy policy

Democracy Chronicles

UN Report Criticizes Crackdown on Protesters in Iran

By DC Editors - March 14, 2019 Leave a Comment

FacebookTweetLinkedInPin

UN Expert Criticizes Crackdown on Protesters in Iran
From Voice of America

A report critical of Iran’s human rights situation and its crackdown on people protesting declining living standards is under review this week at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The U.N. special investigator on the human rights situation in Iran, Javaid Rehman, said the country faces myriad challenges, many related to rising inflation and deteriorating economic and social conditions such as late or unpaid wages, food shortages and lack of health care.

The hardships likely will worsen as secondary sanctions re-imposed by the United States take effect, Rehman said, adding that concerns about human rights and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and to association are mounting as popular discontent increases.

“Worrying patterns of intimidation, arrest, prosecution and ill-treatment of human rights defenders, lawyers, and labor rights activists signal an increasingly severe state response,” he said.

Lawyers, political opponents, journalists and other individuals who are arrested are accused by the government of offenses punishable by death or life in prison, then are subjected to ill-treatment to get them to confess, Rehman said.

He is particularly concerned about an Iranian law that permits the execution of children.

“Iranian law today allows girls as young as nine years, and boys as young as 15 years to be sentenced to death for certain crimes,” he said. “As a result, individuals aged below the age of 18 years when they allegedly commit certain crimes have been executed.”

The U.N. expert said at least 21 children have been sentenced to death, and at least 33 have been executed since 2013. At least 85 child offenders reportedly are languishing on death row, and six were executed last year, he added.

Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Esmaeil Baghaei Hamaneh, contests that. He said execution of children aged nine and 15 has never happened, and capital punishment is only imposed after due process in accordance with the law and only for the most serious crimes.

FacebookTweetLinkedInPin

Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Democracy Protests, Iran, Middle East, United Nations

About DC Editors

We are your source for news on the all important effort to establish and strengthen democracy across the globe. Our international team with dozens of independent authors are your gateway into the raging struggle for free and fair elections on every continent with a focus on election reform in the United States. See our Facebook Page and also follow us on Twitter @demchron.

Some highlighted Democracy Chronicles topics

Africa American Corruption American Local Elections American State Elections Asia Capitalism and Big Business Celebrity Politics China Democracy Charity Democracy Protests Democrats Dictatorships Education Election History Election Methods Election Security Election Transparency Europe Internet and Democracy Journalism and Free Speech Middle East Minority Voting Rights Money Politics New York City and State Elections Political Artwork Political Dissidents Political Lobbying Redistricting Republicans Russia Socialism and Labor Social Media and Democracy South America Spying and Privacy Supreme Court Syria Third Party Voter Access Voter ID Voter Registration Voter Turnout Voting Technology Women Voting Rights Worldwide Worldwide Corruption

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Home | ALL NEWS | WORLD | UN Report Criticizes Crackdown on Protesters in Iran

Primary Sidebar

donate button

Teaching Voting Theory With a Card-Based Voting Game

By Steve Cobb

This uniquely inventive new game’s name ‘Concurrence’ is a play on words: it means “agreement” in English and “competition” in Russian.

U

By Aydasara Ortega

Data governance surfaces as key terrain on which to regulate firms engaged in datafication by responding to the injustices of informational capitalism.

democracy chronicles newsletter

DC AUTHORS

On The Dynamics of Abortion. And Argentina.

By David Anderson, J.D.

There’s big news from Argentina lately. By a fair margin abortion was finally legalized there last month after decades of grassroots activism.

An Expat American in the Middle East Discusses Trump Concerns

By Steve Schneider

Democracy Chronicles author Steve Schneider interviews ex-pat American Jason Meursault who shares his overseas perspective on the Capitol riot.

Why Trump Should be Impeached

By Jack Jones

Trump’s tenure was a reign of terror. The 6 Jan insurrection is ground for Senate impeachment to prevent him from causing further damage to our democracy.

On Approval Voting and the National Popular Vote

By Steve Cobb

Though written without regard for alternative voting methods, maybe the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is OK.

Is Giuliani a Speech-Maker or a Criminal Instigator?

By Steve Schneider

Rudy Giuliani is Trump’s personal lawyer. He has spoken in two rallies that became criminal riots, including the Jan 6, 2021, mob attack on The Capitol.

Democracy Counts in Georgia; D.C. in Chaos

By Steve Schneider

Major upheavals in American politics saw democrats winning Georgia on Jan 5, 2021 while on Jan 6 a Trump mob attacked The Capitol to stop certification of Biden’s victory.

Why the Republican leadership doesn’t have our welfare in consideration

By Jack Jones

The fight against American corruption is not over! It will be when America’s Oligarchs come to realization. They need to be checked for all our sakes.

MORE FROM OUR AUTHORS

VISIT OUR POLITICAL ART SECTION:

dc political art

DEMOCRACY CULTURE

Protest Art from Around the World

Foundation Publishes Protest Art from Around the World

Art has been a powerful medium of protest and creative expression to expose the deception and social bankruptcy of tyranny.

Protecting Californian Elections

How Bad Jokes Complicated Protecting Californian Elections

Public records show California’s scattershot cybersecurity approach ensnared some people who say they were joking.

Kanye West Kept Off the 2020 Arizona Ballot

Why Was Kanye West Kept Off the 2020 Arizona Ballot?

On September 8, the Arizona Supreme Court issued a short order saying Kanye West could not be on the ballot as an independent candidate for president.

Political Comedy Helps Young Adults

Study Claims Political Comedy Helps Young Adults

Interesting news on this front comes from the University of Pennsylvania: New research suggests that humor may

MORE CULTURE

VISIT OUR US DEMOCRACY SECTION:

American Democracy