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Formed | 2005 |
Headquarters | Tehran |
Motto | Arabic: وَلَقَدْ کَرَّمْنَا بَنِی آدَمَ "And indeed We have honoured the Children of Adam" [Quran 17:70 |
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Parent agency | Judicial Power of Iran |
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humanrights |
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. [1]
The council rejects and condemns appointment of Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran by United Nations [2] 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. [3]
The council has challenged laws against Holocaust denial, spread of Islamophobia, forced unveiling in schools, specifically in France as being against human rights. [1]