US Department of State: Iran Continues to Violate Human Rights

HRANA News Agency – US Department of State published its annual human rights report and with emphasizing on torture, suppression of freedom of expression and public executions, announced that Islamic Republic of Iran is continuously violating human rights.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), US Department of State published its 40th country reports on human rights practices and on the section that is about Iran announced that the violation of human rights and practices like torture, harassment of political prisoners and arbitrary executions have continued in Iran in 2015.

It is mentioned on this report that, “The most significant human rights problems were severe restrictions on civil liberties, including the freedoms of assembly, association, speech (including via the internet), religion, and press; limitations on citizens’ ability to choose the government peacefully through free and fair elections; and abuse of due process combined with escalating use of capital punishment for crimes that do not meet the threshold of most serious crime or are committed by juvenile offenders”.

Other human rights “problem” in Iran was mentioned as “disregard for the physical integrity of persons, whom authorities arbitrarily and unlawfully detained, tortured, or killed; disappearances; cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, including judicially sanctioned amputation and flogging; politically motivated violence and repression; harsh and life-threatening conditions in detention and prison facilities, with instances of deaths in custody; arbitrary arrest and lengthy pretrial detention, sometimes incommunicado; continued impunity of the security forces; denial of fair public trial, sometimes resulting in executions without due process; the lack of an independent judiciary; political prisoners and detainees; ineffective implementation of civil judicial procedures and remedies; arbitrary interference with privacy, family, home, and correspondence; harassment and arrest of journalists; censorship and media content restrictions; severe restrictions on academic freedom; restrictions on freedom of movement; official corruption and lack of government transparency; constraints on investigations by international and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) into alleged violations of human rights; legal and societal discrimination and violence against women, ethnic and religious minorities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons based on perceived sexual orientation and gender identity; incitement to anti-Semitism; trafficking in persons; and severe restrictions on the exercise of labor rights.”

US Department of State emphasizes that US does not have embassy in Iran and all of the sources were non-American.

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