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(i) To end restrictions placed on Internet users and Internet providers that
violate the rights to freedom of expression, association and privacy;
(j) To end restrictions on the press and media representatives, including the
selective jamming of satellite broadcasts;
(k) To end the use of State security forces and Government-directed militias
to forcibly disperse Iranian citizens engaged in the peaceful exercise of their rights
to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association;
(l) To uphold, in law and in practice, procedural guarantees to ensure due
process of law;
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Also calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to
strengthen its national human rights institutions in accordance with the principles
relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of
human rights (“the Paris Principles”); 6
6.
Further calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to
consider ratifying or acceding to the international human rights treaties to which it
is not already a party, to effectively implement those human rights treaties to which
it is already a party and to withdraw any reservations it may have made upon
signature or ratification of other international human rights instruments where such
reservations are overly general, imprecise or could be considered incompatible with
the object and purpose of the treaty;
Calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cooperate
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fully with all international human rights mechanisms, and encourages the Government
to continue exploring cooperation on human rights and justice reform with the
United Nations, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Human Rights;
Expresses deep concern that, despite the Islamic Republic of Iran’s
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standing invitation to all thematic special procedures mandate holders, it has not
fulfilled any requests from those special mechanisms to visit the country in five
years and has left unanswered the vast majority of the numerous and repeated
communications from those special mechanisms, and strongly urges the Government
of the Islamic Republic of Iran to fully cooperate with the special mechanisms,
including facilitating their visits to its territory, so that credible and independent
investigations of all allegations of human rights violations can be conducted;
Strongly encourages the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to
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seriously consider all of the recommendations put forward at its universal periodic
review by the Human Rights Council, 7 with the full and genuine participation of
civil society and other stakeholders;
10. Strongly encourages the thematic special procedures mandate holders to
pay particular attention to, with a view to investigating and reporting on, the
situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in particular the Special
Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special
Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to
freedom of opinion and expression, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom
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Resolution 48/134, annex.
See A/HRC/14/12.