A/RES/73/181
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
to education and incitement to hatred that leads to violence against persons belonging
to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities, including Christians, Gonabadi
Dervishes, Jews, Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Yarsanis, Zoroastrians and members
of the Baha’i faith and their defenders in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and calls upon
the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to release all religious practitioners
imprisoned for their membership in or activities on behalf of a recognized or
unrecognized minority religious group, including the remaining imprisoned member
of the Baha’i leadership, whom the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the
Human Rights Council has declared to have been arbitrarily d etained since 2008;
19. Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to eliminate, in law and in practice,
all forms of discrimination on the basis of thought, conscience, religion or belief,
including economic restrictions, such as the closure or confiscatio n of businesses and
properties, the cancellation of licences and the denial of employment in certain public
and private sectors, including government or military positions and elected office,
and other human rights violations against persons belonging to r ecognized and
unrecognized religious minorities, and to end impunity for those who commit crimes
against persons belonging to recognized and unrecognized religious minorities;
20. Also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to launch a comprehensive
accountability process in response to all cases of serious human rights violations,
including allegations of excessive use of force against peaceful protesters and cases
of suspicious deaths in custody, as well as violations involving the Iranian judiciary
and security agencies, and calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran
to end impunity for such violations;
21. Further calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to implement its
obligations under those human rights treaties to which it is alrea dy a party, to
withdraw any reservations that are imprecise or could be considered incompatible
with the object and purpose of the treaty, to consider acting upon the concluding
observations concerning the Islamic Republic of Iran adopted by the bodies of the
international human rights treaties to which it is a party and to consider ratifying or
acceding to the international human rights treaties to which it is not already a party;
22. Calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to deepen its engagement with
international human rights mechanisms by:
(a) Cooperating fully with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including by accepting the repeated requests
made by the Special Rapporteur to visit the country in order to carry out the mandate;
(b) Increasing cooperation with other special mechanisms, including by
facilitating long-standing requests for access to the country from thematic special
procedures mandate holders, whose access to its territory has b een restricted or
denied, despite the standing invitation issued by the Islamic Republic of Iran, without
imposing undue conditions upon those visits;
(c) Continuing to enhance its cooperation with the treaty bodies, including by
submitting overdue reports under the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination 7 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights;2
(d) Implementing all accepted universal periodic review recommendations
from its first cycle, in 2010, and its second cycle, in 2014, with the full and genuine
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