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Iranian human rights defenders and civil society activists, such as\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2016\/10\/01\/iran-10-year-sentence-confirmed-prominent-rights-defender\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENarges Mohammadi\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0and\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/09\/05\/irans-student-activists-denied-education\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EZia Nabavi\u003C\/a\u003E,\u00a0filed a complaint against Iranian judicial authorities\u2019\u00a0abusive\u00a0practice of detaining\u00a0people\u00a0in solitary confinement at the\u00a0Office\u00a0of Judicial Electronic Services\u00a0in Tehran.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/emtedad.news\/1399\/12\/11\/%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%ad%d8%b6%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%af%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%82%d8%b6%d8%a7%db%8c%db%8c-%d8%b5%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%aa-%da%af%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%aa%d8%9b-%d8%a7%d8%b9%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEmtedad news\u00a0website\u003C\/a\u003E,\u00a0Iranian\u00a0civil society\u00a0activists\u00a0said in their complaint that solitary confinement is against international and domestic standards of due process rights,\u00a0and authorities should hold\u00a0officials\u00a0who\u00a0carry out\u00a0this practice accountable.\u00a0\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor decades,\u00a0Human Rights Watch has documented\u00a0Iranian authorities\u2019\u00a0prolonged\u00a0detention of activists, journalists, human rights lawyers and dual and foreign nationals arrested on vaguely defined national security\u00a0charges\u00a0languish\u00a0in solitary confinement. These\u00a0prison\u00a0wards\u00a0are\u00a0often\u00a0under\u00a0the\u00a0supervision of intelligence services, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u00a0(IRGC)\u00a0Intelligence Organization\u00a0and Ministry of Intelligence,\u00a0where those detained are often deprived of\u00a0other rights,\u00a0including access to a lawyer.\u00a0\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EInternational treaty bodies and United Nations special rapporteurs on torture have concluded that prolonged solitary confinement may amount to cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment that violates human rights. 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