High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran | |
Formed: | 2005 |
Headquarters: | Tehran |
Motto: | Arabic: وَلَقَدْ کَرَّمْنَا بَنِی آدَمَ "And indeed We have honoured the Children of Adam" |
Chief1 Name: | Chief Justice |
Chief1 Position: | Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i |
Chief2 Name: | Secretary |
Chief2 Position: | Kazem Gharibabadi |
Parent Agency: | Judicial Power of Iran |
High Council for Human Rights (Persian: ستاد حقوق بشر, Sitad-e Heqâvâq-e Beshir) is the governmental national human rights institution of Iran, subdivision to the Judiciary of Iran.
The council rejects and condemns appointment of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran by United Nations[1] and strongly opposes the western countries' positions about current human rights situation in Iran. It also assumes the “true face” of human rights should be sought through Islam.[2]
The council has challenged laws against Holocaust denial, spread of Islamophobia, forced unveiling in schools, specifically in France as being against human rights.[3]