{"id":1293,"date":"2013-08-30T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2013-08-30T17:35:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T17:35:03","slug":"iran-renewed-attacks-on-the-mandate-of-un-special-rapporteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2013\/08\/iran-renewed-attacks-on-the-mandate-of-un-special-rapporteur\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Renewed attacks on the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/FIDH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-381 alignleft\" alt=\"FIDH\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/FIDH.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/482590_489452041092069_205218703_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1294 alignleft\" alt=\"482590_489452041092069_205218703_n\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/482590_489452041092069_205218703_n.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fidh.org\/iran-renewed-attacks-on-the-mandate-of-un-special-rapporteur-13891\">FIDH<\/a> and its member organization, the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), express the disappointment at recent statements by Iranian high-level officials regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s persistent rejection of the mandate of UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>FIDH and LDDHI believe that a country visit by the mandate holder, Dr Ahmed Shaheed, would be a very positive step forward for Iran to engage into a constructive dialogue on human rights with the international community.<\/p>\n<p>Several representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran declared, over the past few days, that Dr Ahmed Shaheed shall not be allowed to visit Iran. Mr Abbas Araghchi, spokesperson of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, announced on 27 August 2013 that Iran does not consider Ahmed Shaheed to be \u201ca fair rapporteur\u201d. On the same day, Mr Mohammad Javad Larijani, Secretary-General of the Iranian Judiciary\u2019s High Council for Human Rights, declared that Dr Shaheed\u2019s request shall \u201cnot be taken seriously\u201d. These statements followed two letters sent by the Special Rapporteur to the office of President Rohani, requesting for an invitation for a country visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing new in these recent remarks by Iranian officials. This clearly shows that the new government of the Islamic Republic of Iran does not intend to cooperate with the UN more than the previous one. This policy, which has already led to an increasing isolation of Iran, can only further deepen the exasperation of Iranian people, who are the first to bear the brunt of such a situation\u201d, FIDH President Karim Lahidji said.<\/p>\n<p>The UN General Assembly will commence its 68th session in a few weeks. In this context, Dr Shaheed is due to present his report on the human rights situation in Iran In the past, the refusal of Iranian authorities to let him visit the country left him with no other alternative than to report back their lack of cooperation and denounce reports of serious human rights violations, including the arbitrary detention of human rights defenders and members of the opposition, torture, public executions, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; FIDH and its member organization, the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), express the disappointment at recent statements by Iranian high-level officials regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s persistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,34,5,85,58,7,11,31,65,50,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-selection","category-fidh-news","category-geography","category-human-rights","category-international-and-intergovernmental-institutions","category-iran","category-issues","category-journals","category-others","category-political-civil-economic-social-and-cultural-rights","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}