The Rights of Detainees
19 Aug 2009 21:203 Comments
By NEMA MILANINIA | 19 Aug 2009
[TEHRAN BUREAU] Briefs Two documents that can be found online detail relevant laws in Iran that address treatment in the arrest and detention of Iranians and foreigners.
The first is a report by a United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. In February 2003, the group conducted a country visit to Iran by invitation of the Iranian government in order to address the status of prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners. The report makes a number of interesting conclusions. Even in 2003, it was found that the Revolutionary Guards possessed incredible control over the detention of political prisoners. (In one instance, despite receiving permission to visit a wing of Evin prison housing political prisoners and prisoners of conscious, the investigators were nevertheless denied entry when two members of the intelligence service stopped them on-site.) There's also an interesting anecdote about a female guard posing as a prisoner in order to manipulate the working group's findings.
A second document was published yesterday by the Iranian American Bar Association. The document is authored by Navid Sato, an Iranian J.S.D candidate at the American University in Washington, D.C. The document details the relevant laws on detention and treatment under the Iranian Constitution and other statutory texts.
Both documents should be valuable in light of increasing efforts to understand the rights (and lack thereof) of prisoners currently being detained and put under trial in Iran.
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The Bill of Rights, the Rules and Criminal Procedures which has in it The Rights of the Accused were nowhere you can witness in Iran. Among the police officers and the prosecutors , the victims, if they are fortunate enough to survive, are merely objects who would have to attend countless trials or following up their cases, if only to be satisfied that justice will prevail in the end.
shetty / August 19, 2009 9:22 PMSuch a terrible trauma!
All you have in Iran today is the "Bill of Mullah Rights."
David / August 22, 2009 11:38 AMYou want real and meaningful "Bill of Rights," then get rid of these Mullahas. These Mullahas are nothing but disease infested, mindless, craven, corrupt, bile cockroaches.
In response to the above, I am proactive in working with people fleeing persecution and torture many of whom are from Iran.
Unfortunately In the United Kingdom, Human Rights are still being violated and these already traumatised people are forced to live in poverty and cope with the fact that the Home Office do not believe their stories. Its disgraceful! http:www.alivingghost.blogspot.com
J.A.C. / August 26, 2009 3:56 PM