{"id":5751,"date":"2016-10-04T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2016-10-04T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T04:41:09","slug":"ban-ki-moon-troubled-by-the-level-of-human-rights-violations-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5751\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Ki-moon troubled by the level of human rights violations in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016104194117973241941_UN-secretary-general-highlights-\u2018alarming-rate\u2019-of-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016104194117973241941_UN-secretary-general-highlights-\u2018alarming-rate\u2019-of--300x172.jpg\" alt=\"2016104194117973241941_un-secretary-general-highlights-alarming-rate-of\" width=\"638\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016104194117973241941_UN-secretary-general-highlights-\u2018alarming-rate\u2019-of--300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2016104194117973241941_UN-secretary-general-highlights-\u2018alarming-rate\u2019-of-.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a>Guardian- 04 Oct. 2016-<\/strong>The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has given a damning assessment of human rights in Iran, highlighting the \u201calarming rate\u201d of executions and saying little progress has been made under president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/newsen\/24252\" target=\"_blank\"> Hassan Rouhani <\/a>.<br \/>\nBan\u2019s 19-page report, released this week, says he remains \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d by accounts \u201cof executions, floggings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, unfair trials, denial of access to medical care and possible torture and ill-treatment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/images\/2016\/20161041941179732419451.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It adds: \u201cHe is also concerned about continued restrictions of public freedoms and the related persecution of civil society actors, the persistence of discrimination against women and minorities and conditions of detention.\u201d<br \/>\nBan\u2019s report also highlights the plight of journalist and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who recently had her 16-year jail sentence upheld in an appeals court. Mohammadi is locked up partly because of allegations of \u201cestablishing and running the illegal splinter group Legam\u201d, a grassroots organisation advocating the abolition of the death penalty in Iran.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mojahedin.org\/images\/2016\/20161041941179732419452.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThe deteriorating conditions in Iranian prisons \u2013 where the use of solitary confinement is widespread and many prisoners, especially those held on political grounds or because of their beliefs, are at times denied proper medical treatment \u2013 is also criticised by the UN chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Guardian- 04 Oct. 2016-The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has given a damning assessment of human rights in Iran, highlighting the \u201calarming rate\u201d of executions <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/5751\/\" title=\"Ban Ki-moon troubled by the level of human rights violations in Iran\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-human-rights","category-iran-world","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5753,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/5753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}