Iran on Wednesday denounced as one-sided a United Nations report accusing the Islamic Republic of a catalogue of human rights abuses, ranging from restricting freedom of the press to torture.
In a report by the official IRNA news agency, foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Rea Asefi said “the report is an interference in Iran’s internal affairs”. “It is completely one-sided and has been prepared without considering the realities and the huge positive changes which have come with the stabilisation of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added.
Circulated on Tuesday, the report - written by Canadian jurist Maurice Copithorne, the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran - was especially critical of the country’s powerful Guardian council - a committee of six clergy and six lawyers, whose job is to ensure that laws conform with Islam and the constitution. According to the IRNA report, Asefi said “a detailed and substantive response” to the United Nations report would be made.
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