Islamic Republic of Iran

Country Information 467

Abduction 1
Abuse of psychiatry 3
Access to procedures 1
Access to water 3
Administrative law 1
Ahwazi 5
Alawi 1
Anti-terrorism law 1
Appeal / Right to appeal 2
Arabs 12
Arbitrary arrest and detention 35
Armed forces / Military 18
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 11
Armenian 2
Assemblies of God 1
Assyrians 2
Asylum policy 3
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 16
Atheist / Agnostic 1
Azeri 13
Baha'i 17
Bakhtiari 2
Baluchis 12
Baptist 1
Border conflict 2
Border controls 1
Border crossers 2
Chaldean 1
Child labour 4
Child soldiers 1
Children's rights 13
Children-at-risk 15
Christian 23
Citizenship / Nationality law 2
Civil and political rights 10
Civil war 1
Civilian character of asylum 1
Combatants / Former combatants 1
Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
Conflict prevention 1
Conflict situation 1
Contemporary forms of slavery 2
Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
Corruption 7
Country of origin information (COI) 2
Crimes against humanity 1
Criminal justice 21
Death penalty 46
Demobilization / Disarmament 3
Democracy 2
Deportation / Forcible return 11
Disappeared persons 1
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 16
Domestic violence 14
Drug trafficking 4
Economic, social and cultural rights 15
Effective protection 4
Effective remedy 2
Elections 30
Embargo 1
Entry / Exit 8
Entry into force 1
Equality before the law 1
Ethnic cleansing 1
Evangelical 4
Exiles 4
Expulsion 3
Extrajudicial executions 11
False documents 7
Family law 2
Family reunification 1
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 8
Forced marriage 10
Foreign occupation 1
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 46
Freedom of assembly and association 27
Freedom of expression 53
Freedom of information 31
Freedom of movement 11
Freedom of religion 29
Freedom of speech 23
Gender discrimination 21
Gender mainstreaming 1
Gender-based persecution 12
Good governance 16
HIV and AIDS 5
Harmful traditional practices 7
Hazara 1
Hmong 1
Honour killings 14
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
Human Rights Council 12
Human rights activists 28
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 64
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 3
IDP camps 3
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 4
Impunity 8
Independence of judiciary 17
Integration 2
Internal armed conflict 4
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 14
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 9
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) 1
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) 1
International armed conflict 10
International courts and tribunals 1
International criminal law 1
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 4
Jew 6
Juvenile justice system 9
Kurd 30
Labour law 1
Laws relating to religion 4
Legal representation / Legal aid 4
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 21
Livelihoods 1
Maternal and child health care 3
Mental health 1
Migrant rights 3
Migrants 5
Military courts 2
Military law 1
Military operations 6
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
Minorities 26
Minority rights 20
Multiple nationality 1
Muslim 6
National security / Public order 2
Non-refoulement 2
Non-state agents of persecution 3
Older persons 1
Opposition 19
Passports 1
Peace agreements 2
Peace process 3
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 7
Persecution based on political opinion 18
Persecution of family members 1
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 12
Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
Persons with disabilities 7
Police 4
Political groups 21
Political parties 31
Political situation 82
Pre-trial detention 1
Prevention of discrimination 2
Prison or detention conditions 28
Prisoners of war 2
Property restitution 1
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
Protection of camps 1
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 3
Protestant 3
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
Public health 4
Racial / Ethnic persecution 11
Refoulement 5
Refugee / Asylum law 7
Refugee camps 4
Refugee identity documents 2
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
Refugees 35
Registration 2
Reintegration 1
Rejected asylum-seekers 5
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 29
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 17
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
Resettlement 2
Return conditions 10
Returnees 15
Right to a nationality 2
Right to education 13
Right to employment 6
Right to family life 1
Right to health 4
Right to justice 2
Right to liberty and security 4
Right to life 5
Right to seek asylum 4
Right to self-determination 1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 26
Sabean Mandean 4
Sale of children 1
Sanctions 72
Security forces 15
Security situation 54
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 23
Sexual and reproductive rights 4
Sharia law 4
Shia 10
Single heads of household 1
Smuggling of persons 2
Social group discrimination 7
Social group persecution 5
Somalis 1
Spontaneous return 1
State protection 12
Statelessness 1
Sufi 8
Sunni 13
Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
Terrorism 23
Torture 7
Trafficking in persons 12
Transgression of social / cultural norms 2
Turkmen 2
Turks 3
Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 6
Urban refugees 1
Voluntary repatriation 11
Well-founded fear of persecution 1
Women's rights 50
Women-at-risk 21
Zoroastrian 17

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Country Policy and Information Note Iran: Women fearing domestic abuse September 2018 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Country Policy and Information Note Iran: Background information, including actors of protection and internal relocation September 2018 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Country Policy and Information Note Iran: Ahwazis and Ahwazi political groups June 2018 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
On the table: Why now is the time to sway Rouhani to meet his promises for press freedom in Iran 24 May 2018 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country Reports
On the table: Why now is the time to sway Rouhani to meet his promises for press freedom in Iran 24 May 2018 \| Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists \| Document type: Country Reports
Country Policy and Information Note Iran: Christians and Christian converts March 2018 \| Publisher: United Kingdom: Home Office \| Document type: Country Reports
Iran: Judicial issues February 2018 \| Publisher: Danish Immigration Service \| Document type: Country Reports
Iran: House Churches and Converts February 2018 \| Publisher: Danish Immigration Service \| Document type: Country Reports
Iran: Relations outside of marriage in Iran and marriages without the acceptance of the family February 2018 \| Publisher: Danish Immigration Service \| Document type: Country Reports
Iran: Issues concerning persons of ethnic minorities, Kurds and Ahwazi Arabs February 2018 \| Publisher: Danish Immigration Service \| Document type: Country Reports

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