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Iran calls UN rights report "biased": spokesperson

24 October 2013 18:52 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Iran's Foreign Ministry rebuffed on Thursday what it called "the biased and politicized" report of the UN special rapporteur on human rights situation in Iran, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said the Islamic republic "will not accept biased reports about the human rights situation in Iran."

"The Islamic republic considers the appointment of special rapporteur (on human rights situation in Iran) as an insult to the Iranians and does not recognize it," said Afkham.

In his report released on Wednesday, which is the first after the moderate President Hassan Rouhani took office in August, Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on human rights situation in Iran, charged Iran with high cases of execution and restrictions on freedom of speech.

The report said that there has been "no sign of improvement" in Iran's human rights situation.

Afkham rejected the UN rights report, saying that it relies on the sources provided by the dissident "terrorist and violence- seeking" Iranians living abroad. It lacks "legitimacy and legality, " she added according to the IRIB.

Shaheed has demanded a visit to Iran to find out about the realities of human rights situation in the country, which has been refused by the Islamic republic.

Iran has dismissed several times the reports by the UN human rights institutions, saying that they did not reflect the realities on the ground in the country.