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- Release all individuals currently deprived of their
liberty for peacefully exercising their rights to free expression,
opinion, and association;
- Abolish the use of prolonged solitary confinement;
- Ensure that all persons deprived of their liberty receive
family visits, and inform families about the location and status of their
family members in detention;
- Revoke the authority of the Ministry of Intelligence, the
judicial authority, and the armed forces (including the Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps) over any civilian prisons or detention centers.
- Investigate promptly all complaints of torture and
ill-treatment;
- Respond quickly to complaints of ill-treatment, and ensure
that prisoners have access to medical care on a regular basis;
- Ensure that guards, interrogators and other detention
facility officials who are responsible for the abuse of prisoners are
subjected to disciplinary measures or criminal prosecution as appropriate;
- Ensure that all interrogators wear identifying badges with
their names and identification numbers, and all individuals involved in
interrogations should be seen by the prisoner.
- Ensure that all detainees are brought before a judge and
informed of the charges against them within 24 hours of their detention,
as required by Iran’s constitution
- Ensure that all detainees have access to counsel and are
able to meet with their attorneys in confidence;
- Ensure that all trials are conducted in public in
accordance with article 14 of the ICCPR;
- Ensure that meetings with judges are held only in the
presence of counsel;
- Order an independent investigation into the use of Ansar-e
Hizbollah (partisans of the party of God) and Basij (militia)
to arrest, search, harass, beat, and interrogate persons targeted for
criticizing the government;
- Suspend judges who order the use of these forces for such
purposes;
- Investigate and prosecute plainclothes agents and militia
engaged in attacks against peaceful protesters and activists during
November 2002 protests, June and July 2003 protests, and similar
incidents;
- Follow up on the recommendations of the parliamentary
Article 90 Commission: including investigation and prosecution of
officials accused of violating the law.
- Reform the penal code so that vaguely-worded crimes such
as “activities against national security,” “public disturbance,” and
“cooperating with foreign entities” can no longer be used to punish
persons for exercising their rights to free expression and association.
- Approve ratification of the Convention against Torture and
other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which has
already been passed twice by the Parliament.
- Use further sessions of the EU-Iran Human Rights Dialogue
to develop performance and time-based benchmarks with respect to ending
practices documented in this report;
- Urge Iranian authorities to release those currently held
in detention for the peaceful expression of their views;
- Urge Iranian authorities to follow up on the
recommendations of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the
Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression following their
visits to Iran.
- Request an urgent visit to Iran, noting that Iran issued a standing invitation to UN thematic mechanisms in 2002;
- Following up on the relevant findings of the Working Group
on Arbitrary Detention as well as the Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of
Opinion and Expression, monitor closely the systematic use of solitary
confinement as a form of torture and cruel and inhuman punishment.
[3] In this
report, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is referred to as the “Leader,” which is a
direct translation of his most common title in Farsi, “Rahbar.” His
position is also called Vali-e Faqih, which is “the Jurist Ruler,” which
is a reference to the theory of rule enshrined in Iran’s Constitution, placing
the most significant aspects of governance in the hands of one individual who
is seen as the leader of the faithful on earth.
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