UNIItL ) C
NATIONS
Economic and Social Distr.
Council GENERAL
E/CN.4/2004/3/Add.2/Corr. 1
11 September2003
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ARABIC, CH1NESE, ENGLISH,
RUSSIAN and SPANISH only
COtvIIVIISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Sixtieth session
Item 11(b) of the provisional agenda
CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE
QUESTION OF TORTURE AND DETENTION
REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON
ARBITRARY DETENTION
Addendum
VISIT TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
(15-27 February 2003)
Corrigendum
Replace paragraph 17 by the following:
17. In practice, most of the individuals visited by the Working Group were prosecuted and
sentenced during the seven-year period in which the prosecution service was suspended.
Proceedings were initiated by the judge, who then conducted the investigation and, lastly,
delivered judgement himself As both prosecutor and examining magistrate, he was assisted by
the “law enforcement services or Pasdaran, and, where appropriate, other armed forces, subj ect
to authorization by the National Security Council” (Code of Criminal Procedure, art. 15).
Prosecutors were ultimately reinstated at the end of 2002, a development welcomed by the
Working Group.
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