Iran had a 'deeply troubling' number of executions last year and did not keep a promise to protect ethnic and religious minorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday in its annual report on the Iranian regime’s human rights record.
The report from the office of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the U.N. Human Rights Council cataloged U.N. concerns about rights violations in Iran against women, religious minorities, journalists and activists.
The reports said: “The Secretary-General remains deeply troubled by the continuing large number of executions, including of political prisoners and juveniles”.
It repeated a U.N. call for a death penalty moratorium and a ban on executing youths.
The report said Hassan Rouhani had not kept its promise to 'extend protection to all religious groups and to amend legislation that discriminates against minority groups'.
“The above-mentioned commitments have not ... been translated into results,” the report said. “Individuals seeking greater recognition for their cultural and linguistic rights risk facing harsh penalties، including capital punishment.”
Tehran also continued a crackdown on freedom of expression. The regime has blocked 5 million websites and has jailed journalists.
The report said that the prisoners were allegedly tortured, ill-treated, held for months in solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer and risked the death penalty for crimes such as 'corruption on earth' and 'enmity against God'.
The report added Iran had not invited the U.N. investigator on Iranian human rights, and 24 of 29 U.N. inquiries on specific cases had gone unanswered.
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