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Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi (C) attends a ceremony on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions in Tehran on January 21, 2025.

HCHR slams West’s double standards toward unrest in Iran

The High Council for Human Rights of Iran has severely condemned double standards and paradoxical approaches by human rights entities and the West when it comes to protests and unrest in the Islamic Republic.

Iran responds to human rights accusations

The High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran has issued a statement in reaction to a meddlesome communique by foreign ministers of the US and its allies, condemning unfounded accusations against the Islamic Republic on the rights...

US sanctions violate Iranian people’s rights to clean environment, health and life: UN experts

U.S. sanctions are contributing to environmental harm in Iran and preventing Iranian citizens from fully enjoying their rights to health and life and contributing to additional negative factors like air pollution, UN experts said today.

Some detainees of recent riots released: Gharibabadi

Vice-President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and the Secretary-General of the High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said some detainees under 17 years of age who participated in the recent unrest were released.

Iran’s HR chief visits prisons to examine the condition of those arrested during recent riots

During the Recent RiotsDuring a visit to Tehran prisons, Gharibabadi investigated and followed up on the situation of those arrested during the recent riots.

Envoy terms Special Session of Human Rights Council on Iran as political scam

Iran’s envoy has criticized the Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on the Islamic Republic, calling it “a political scam” and saying the so-called champions of human rights, which have committed crimes against humanity throughout history ...

Iran’s top rights official urges Germany to end ‘deceptive policies’

Secretary of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi on Thursday called on Germany to end what he called its deceptive policies on human rights.

Islamic Republic clears up role of certain states in recent unrest

Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi shed light on the destructive role of certain states and anti-Islamic Republic media in the recent unrest in the country.

Iran not to allow West to divert states’ minds: Official

Deputy chief of the Iranian Judiciary and secretary of the High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi has emphasized that his trip to New York is aimed at hindering the circulation of hostile and fake narratives by the West and the US on recent ...

Iran urges Iraq to proceed trial of Gen Soleimani’s assassinators

Iran’s Judiciary Chief in a letter to the head of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Faiq Zidan, called for accelerating the process of trial of the agents of the January 2020 assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.