Women and Christians are among victims of human rights abuses in Iran, a United Nations official said March 11 in an emailed news release.
"Reports about recent policies that prohibit women’s access to a number of fields of study, further restrict women’s freedom of movement, and current polices that continue to impede women’s ability to hold certain decision-making positions in government remain problematic," said Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.
The human rights situation in Iran is “grave and continues to deteriorate,” Shaheed said.
Religiously motivated abuses remain a serious problem, Shaheed said.
"It has been reported that 110 Baha’is are currently detained in Iran for exercising their faith; that at least 13 Protestant Christians are currently in detention centres across Iran; and that Dervishes, members of the Yarasen faith, and Sunni Muslims continue to be the subject of punitive activities, raising serious concern about the situation of religious minorities in the country," Shaheed said.
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