U.S. Department of state

U.S. Department of state
 
Human Rights Report: Iran*

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
 
 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
 
February 25, 2009
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  On December 18, for the sixth consecutive year, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on Iran expressing "deep concern at ongoing systematic violations of human rights."
 

 
RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
 
Section 1 Respect for the Integrity of the Person, Including Freedom From:
 
a. Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life
 
There were reports that the government and its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings.
 
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 In October Peyman Fatahi was hospitalized after security officials reportedly beat him severely after summoning him for questioning related to his association with a group known as the "Ale-Yasin community." Authorities first arrested Fatahi in June 2007 and conditionally released him after holding him for six months in Evin Prison on charges of "acting against national security.
." Group members alleged that he was also severely beaten during his 2007 imprisonment
 
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