INTRODUCTION
- The outcome of 45 years long running of the theocratic political system can be summed up in 5 points:
- the massacre of thousands of opponents and a record number of executions carried out on trumped-up charges following trials that failed to meet internationally recognised standards of transparency and fairness;
- the widespread use of torture;
- the severe limitation of the freedoms of opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association;
- the repression of ethnic and religious minorities;
- and the continuing repressive restrictions on women’s freedoms.
- In the occasion of the adoption of the third Periodic Review of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2019, the Iranian authorities accepted 143 recommendations out of the 329 made by the members of the UPR Working Group (about 43,5%).
- The supported recommendations are merely of general nature and it is difficult, if not impossible, to measure the progresses made in fulfilling the commitments made in 2019.
- On the contrary, the Iranian authorities did not support all recommendations requesting the adoption of specific and verifiable measures.
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