Other human rights practices.(Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses)(Report)(Brief article)

International criticism of Iran's human rights practices predates and transcends the crackdown against the Green movement. Table 3, which discusses the regime's record on a number of human rights issues, is based largely on the latest State Department human rights report (for 2009, March 11, 2010) and State Department International Religious Freedom report (for 2009, October 26, 2009). These reports cite Iran for a wide range of serious abuses, including unjust executions, politically motivated abductions by security forces, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, and arrests of women's rights activists. The State Department human rights report said the government's "poor human rights …