Islamic Republic of Iran

Abduction 3
Access to procedures 4
Acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations 2
Acts of persecution 1
Administrative courts 3
Administrative law 2
Ahwazi 1
Airports 3
Aliens 1
Anti-terrorism law 2
Appeal / Right to appeal 18
Arbitrary arrest and detention 64
Armed forces / Military 4
Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 6
Armenian 1
Arrival 1
Assyrians 1
Asylum policy 5
Asylum-migration nexus 1
Asylum-seekers 18
Azeri 1
Baha'i 10
Bail 1
Bajuni 1
Benefit of the doubt 2
Birth Certificates 1
Border conflict 1
Burden of proof 5
Burden-sharing and international co-operation 8
Catholic 2
Ceasefire 2
Cessation clauses 11
Changes of circumstances in home country 6
Children's rights 11
Children-at-risk 2
Christian 62
Citizenship / Nationality law 3
Civil and political rights 3
Combatants / Former combatants 1
Complementary forms of protection 9
Constitutional law 2
Convention against Torture (CAT) 1
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 2
Convention refugee 4
Country of origin information (COI) 78
Credibility assessment 82
Crime prevention 1
Crimes against humanity 7
Criminal justice 25
Death penalty 12
Decision on admissibility 5
Demobilization / Disarmament 3
Denial of refugee status 31
Deportation / Forcible return 114
Derivative status 3
Disappeared persons 1
Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 7
Domestic violence 10
Drug trafficking 5
EU Qualification Directive 2
Economic, social and cultural rights 2
Effective protection 2
Effective remedy 18
Election law 2
Elections 14
Embargo 1
Evangelical 5
Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 77
Exclusion clauses 15
Exhaustion of domestic remedies 4
Expulsion 28
Extradition 1
Extrajudicial executions 3
False documents 3
Family law 2
Family reunification 3
Forced marriage 3
Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 84
Freedom of assembly and association 6
Freedom of expression 19
Freedom of information 9
Freedom of religion 9
Freedom of speech 9
Fresh / New claim 9
Gender discrimination 8
Gender-based persecution 9
Grounds for persecution 2
Hazara 2
Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 3
Human Rights Council 5
Human rights activists 5
Human rights and fundamental freedoms 34
Human rights monitors 5
Illegal entry 12
Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 5
Immigrants 3
Immigration Detention 36
Immigration law 3
Impunity 1
Inclusion clauses 1
Independence of judiciary 3
Internal armed conflict 1
Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 8
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 4
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 3
International armed conflict 11
International courts and tribunals 2
International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 9
International protection 4
Involuntary repatriation 1
Iranians 2
Jew 2
Jurisdiction 3
Kurd 19
Labour law 1
Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
Laws relating to religion 1
Legal representation / Legal aid 7
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 25
Mandate status 10
Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
Mental health 10
Military law 2
Military operations 2
Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 14
Minorities 3
Minority rights 2
Mormon 2
Muslim 4
National security / Public order 3
Non-refoulement 25
Non-state agents of persecution 14
One-child policy / Family planning 1
Opposition 7
Passports 26
Peace process 5
Peacekeeping 6
Pentecostal 1
Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 1
Persecution based on political opinion 147
Persecution of family members 18
Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 21
Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
Political asylum 4
Political groups 4
Political parties 5
Political situation 1
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 6
Pre-trial detention 1
Prison or detention conditions 18
Proof of nationality 1
Prosecution vs persecution 18
Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
Protection of civilian persons in time of war 4
Protestant 1
Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 2
Public health 2
Racial / Ethnic persecution 9
Re-entry 4
Readmission 1
Reception 8
Refoulement 28
Refugee / Asylum law 4
Refugee seamen 1
Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 20
Refugees 27
Refugees sur place 1
Regional instruments 13
Rejected asylum-seekers 15
Religious discrimination 6
Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 83
Resettlement 3
Residence permits / Residency 7
Returnees 4
Right to development 1
Right to education 6
Right to employment 2
Right to family life 15
Right to health 2
Right to justice 6
Right to liberty and security 15
Right to life 9
Right to seek asylum 1
Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 27
Sabean Mandean 1
Safe country of origin 2
Safe third country 13
Sanctions 10
Secondary movement 1
Security forces 1
Security situation 7
Serious non-political crime 1
Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 11
Sharia law 3
Shia 2
Single procedure 7
Smuggling of persons 4
Social group persecution 45
Standard of proof 7
State protection 8
Statelessness 3
Statelessness Determination Procedures 1
Sufi 2
Sunni 2
Sur place persecution 16
Tamil 1
Terrorism 13
Torture 3
Transgression of social / cultural norms 11
Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
Travel documents 6
Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 4
UNHCR mandate 13
Unaccompanied / Separated children 5
Unlawful departure 19
Visas 17
Voluntary repatriation 4
War crimes 3
Well-founded fear of persecution 22
Witnesses 9
Women's rights 8
Women-at-risk 10
Zoroastrian 6

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AB (Article 1F(a) – defence - duress) Iran 8 September 2016 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1951 Refugee Convention \| Topic(s): Burden of proof - Crimes against humanity - Exclusion clauses \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
O.M. v. Hungary 5 July 2016 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Immigration Detention - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Prison or detention conditions \| Countries: Hungary - Iran, Islamic Republic of
SSH and HR (illegal exit: failed asylum seeker) Iran CG 29 June 2016 \| Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Rejected asylum-seekers - Travel documents \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Mehrdad Ghezelbash v Staatssecretaris van Veiligheid en Justitie 7 June 2016 \| Judicial Body: European Union: Court of Justice of the European Union \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Burden-sharing and international co-operation - Effective remedy - Regional instruments \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - Netherlands
F.J. et al. v. Australia asylum seekers’ detention is arbitrary and contrary to their right to liberty if the State fails to demonstrate on an individual basis that their continuous indefinite detention is justified, and that other, less intrusive, measures could not achieve the same end of compliance with the State’s need to respond to security concerns. In addition, the HRC considers that the combination of the arbitrary character and indefinite nature of the authors’ protracted detention, the absence of procedural guarantees to challenge the detention and the difficult conditions of detention, cumulatively inflict serious psychological harm that amount to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” under the ICCPR. 2 May 2016 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law \| Legal Instrument: 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) \| Topic(s): Arbitrary arrest and detention - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Immigration Detention \| Countries: Afghanistan - Australia - Iran, Islamic Republic of - Sri Lanka
F.G. v. Sweden 23 March 2016 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Deportation / Forcible return - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Right to life \| Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - Sweden
Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 25 February 2016 \| Publisher: UN General Assembly \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
R.T. c. Grèce 11 February 2016 \| Judicial Body: Council of Europe: European Court of Human Rights \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Effective remedy - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Illegal entry - Kurd - Prison or detention conditions \| Countries: Greece - Iran, Islamic Republic of - Türkiye
X v. Denmark 21 October 2015 \| Judicial Body: UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) \| Document type: Case Law \| Topic(s): Expulsion - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) \| Countries: Denmark - Iran, Islamic Republic of
O.M. v. Hungary (Application no. 9912/15): written submission on behalf of AIRE Centre, ECRE, ILGA-Europe and ICJ 21 October 2015 \| Publisher: European Council on Refugees and Exiles \| Document type: Court Interventions / Amicus Curiae

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