Secretary of High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi slammed the separation of an Iranian child from his family by the Danish government, urging Copenhagen to return the boy to his family.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Gharibabadi described the Danish government’s measure to give the Iranian boy Dariush Heydari to a Danish family as “unfair”. He said that deporting Dariush’s parents on a charge of child abduction and separating the boy with Autism spectrum disorder from his family was a gross violation of Denmark’s commitments under human rights, children’s rights in particular. The human rights official praised Iran’s Foreign Ministry for its efforts to reunite Dariush with his family and criticized the Danish government’s non-cooperation under the pretext of deferring any decision to the court. He asked Denmark’s government why they avoid implementing their commitment to reunite the family now that Dariush’s parents are in Iran. Making these parents entangled in the courts of Denmark (although with a visa granted) is neither correct nor consistent with Denmark’s human rights commitments.