United Nations Iran- United NationsSecretary-GeneralAntnio Guterres on Sunday expressed his sorrow at the demise of prominent human rights defender and UN Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir, who passed away at the age of 66. We have lost a human rights giant, said Mr. Guterres in astatement. Asma was brilliant, deeply principled, courageous and ...

FNA- Secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani blasted Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, for her support for Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO, also known as MEK, PMOI and NCRI) terrorist group. "She has strongly supported Monafeqin (hypocrites as MKO members are called in Iran), naming them as supporters ...

IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi criticized an anti-Iran report by UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran Asma Jahangir, saying that the report is lopsided, illegitimate and invalid. On the new report about human rights situation in Iran presented to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, Qasemi said, 'Appointment of ...

IRNA Iranian envoy at the UN said that his doesnt accept the report of the UN special rapporteur on human rights on Iran because she used inauthentic sources and unrealistic cases. He said that Asma Jahangir's report has been affected by political games and is by no means reporting human rights conditions in Iran. Jahangir had expressed concern ...

Tasnim Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani slammed the UN Human Rights Councils move to renew the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran. Unfortunately, the United Nations human rights bodies have become a tool to pressure independent states, Ayatollah Amoli Larijani said in a meeting with ...

FNA- Tehran blasted the UN Human Rights Council's politically-motivated and selective approach, and asked the world body to put an end to the mission of the special human rights rapporteur in Iran. "Given the noticeable human rights progress made in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its extensive and constructive interactions with the international ...

MNA Foreign Ministry spokesperson has denounced the UNs Iran human rights report as unfair and politically motivated. Ms. Asma Jahangir, a Pakistani lawyer replaced Ahmed Shaheed earlier in 2016 as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Her new report was published by the UN on Tuesday to which ...

IRNA A senior Iranian human rights official blasted the recent remarks by UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Asma Jahangir on the situation of certain prisoners in Iran. Secretary of Irans Human Rights Council Mohammad Javad Larijani protested at the recent remarks by Jahangir. 'On a recent press release by your office which included a statement ...