Islamic Republic of Iran

Country Information 3,242
Reference Documents 9

Abduction 59
Access to procedures 3
Access to water 8
Adoption 1
Ahmadis 4
Ahwazi 12
Airports 6
Alawi 2
Albanians 2
Albinism/Persons with Albinism 2
Anti-terrorism law 14
Appeal / Right to appeal 2
Arabs 28
Arbitrary arrest and detention 243
Armed attacks on camps 27
Armed forces / Military 140
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 185
Armenian 1
Assamese 1
Assyrians 1
Asylum-migration nexus 3
Asylum-seekers 46
Azeri 15
Baha'i 39
Bail 9
Baluchis 10
Bedoon 2
Border conflict 42
Border controls 4
Border crossers 7
Buddhist 17
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
Catholic 1
Ceasefire 71
Chechen 12
Child labour 2
Child soldiers 16
Children's rights 29
Children-at-risk 35
Chinese 1
Christian 67
Civil and political rights 14
Civil war 19
Combatants / Former combatants 6
Communal conflict / Social conflict 45
Conflict resolution 11
Conflict situation 10
Contemporary forms of slavery 2
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 1
Corruption 33
Country of origin information (COI) 1
Coup d'état 8
Crimean Tatars 3
Crimes against humanity 8
Criminal justice 174
Death in custody 34
Death penalty 419
Demobilization / Disarmament 2
Democracy 4
Deportation / Forcible return 33
Disappeared persons 20
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 24
Domestic violence 5
Drug trafficking 26
Druze 2
Economic, social and cultural rights 1
Effective remedy 9
Election law 3
Elections 243
Embargo 2
Emigrants 1
Entry / Exit 2
Ethiopians 2
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 1
Exiles 39
Expulsion 7
Extradition 6
Extrajudicial executions 28
Extreme poverty 2
False documents 1
Family law 1
Family reunification 1
Female genital mutilation (FGM) 12
Flight by land, air or sea 1
Forced labour 3
Forced marriage 9
Forced relocation 3
Foreign occupation 10
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 110
Freedom of assembly and association 171
Freedom of conscience 35
Freedom of expression 881
Freedom of information 591
Freedom of movement 15
Freedom of religion 80
Freedom of speech 483
Fulani 5
Gang related violence 2
Gender discrimination 18
Gender-based persecution 4
Generalized violence 2
Genocide 3
Good governance 22
Gross, systematic and large-scale 2
HIV and AIDS 10
Harmful traditional practices 10
Hindu 8
Honour killings 12
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 6
Human Rights Council 10
Human rights activists 249
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 85
Human rights law 1
Human rights monitors 41
Humanitarian assistance 22
IDP camps 4
Illegal entry 2
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 3
Immigrants 2
Immigration Detention 9
Immunity 1
Impunity 19
Independence of judiciary 8
Indigenous persons 2
Integration 2
Internal armed conflict 95
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 25
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
International armed conflict 5
International courts and tribunals 9
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
International protection 1
Involuntary repatriation 2
Iranians 24
Jehovah's Witness 1
Jew 10
Juvenile justice system 52
Kachin 4
Kosovar 1
Kurd 124
Labour law 1
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 8
Legal representation / Legal aid 6
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 55
Livelihoods 3
Location of camps 1
Malays 1
Maronite 2
Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
Migrant rights 7
Migrants 35
Military courts 2
Military operations 99
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
Minorities 43
Minority rights 15
Multiple nationality 2
Muslim 108
National security / Public order 14
Nuer 2
One-child policy / Family planning 2
Opposition 218
Palestinian 39
Passports 1
Peace agreements 36
Peace process 26
Peacekeeping 30
Pentecostal 1
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 28
Persecution based on political opinion 112
Persecution of family members 14
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 36
Persons with disabilities 3
Piracy 1
Police 52
Political groups 24
Political parties 69
Political situation 236
Polygamy 7
Population transfers 2
Pre-trial detention 6
Prison or detention conditions 100
Prisoners of war 1
Prosecution vs persecution 3
Protection of camps 2
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 31
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 116
Public health 22
Racial / Ethnic persecution 5
Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
Reception 3
Reconciliation 3
Referendum 16
Refoulement 3
Refugee camps 36
Refugee seamen 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
Refugees 129
Registration 2
Reintegration 3
Rejection at border 1
Religious discrimination 32
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 57
Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 1
Resettlement 6
Return conditions 4
Returnees 8
Right to education 14
Right to employment 8
Right to family life 1
Right to food 4
Right to health 12
Right to justice 10
Right to life 1
Right to seek asylum 2
Right to self-determination 4
Rohingya (Arakanese) 11
Roma 6
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 37
SGBV 40
Sabean Mandean 1
Safe country of origin 7
Salafi 7
Sanctions 61
Secondary movement 3
Security forces 100
Security situation 237
Sexual and reproductive rights 7
Sharia law 5
Shia 65
Small arms 3
Smuggling of persons 3
Social group discrimination 2
Somalis 2
State of emergency 17
State protection 1
Sufi 13
Sunni 52
Tajik 1
Talysh 1
Tamil 6
Tatars 3
Terrorism 198
Threats / Intimidation 2
Tibetan 9
Tiv 2
Torture 27
Trafficking in persons 11
Transit 2
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 3
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 1
Tuareg 6
Turkmen 2
Uighur 29
Unaccompanied / Separated children 4
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2
Uzbek 1
Visas 9
Voluntary repatriation 6
War crimes 17
Witchcraft 2
Withdrawal of nationality 2
Women's rights 121
Women-at-risk 32
Yazīdī 8
Zoroastrian 3

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