Two Human Rights Organizations: State Media Broadcast Forced Confessions of 355 People

The Justice for Iran organization and the International Federation for Human Rights issued a joint statement calling for the Iranian government to stop using forced confessions.

The joint report by these two organizations states that over the past decade, forced confessions from at least 355 people and defamatory content against 505 individuals have been broadcast on Iranian state television. The report states that these confessions and state media have been used as a weapon of collective suppression.

The two human rights organizations said that this 57-page report is the result of more than 1500 hours of research and analysis of over 150 programs and 13 detailed interviews with victims of forced confessions.

Adel Rahman Khan, secretary general of the International Federation for Human Rights, referring to the Islamic Republic’s long-standing use of forced confessions to suppress opponents, said the time has come for the international community to pressure Iran to stop forced confessions.

Source: Radio Farda