Date
January 6, 2014
Title
Rights Lawyer Says Iran Needs Existing Laws Enforced, not a New Charter, The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
Original Source
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/01/mahaz-parakand/
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Prominent Iranian human rights activist, Mahnaz Parakand, is exposing Iran's "Citizenship Rights Charter" as "a propaganda tool." Parakand says it is "mostly to show off internationally. I don't believe it was written for inside Iran, but for outside Iran to show that this government is going to pay attention to the situation of human rights in Iran." Parakand notes: "Article 38 of the Constitution prohibits torture, yet torturing suspects is a routine procedure by the Investigative Unit of Iranian Police." "We have laws, they are just not enforced."