Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran for apostasy and other charges. Late November, 2018 prison warden Qarchak women prison in Varamin, near the capital Tehran attacked and bit three Dervish religious minority prisoners when they demanded their confiscated belongings back. In a 2008 report, the organization Human Rights Watch complained that "broadly worded `security laws`" in Iran are used "to arbitrarily suppress and punish individuals for peaceful political expression, association, and assembly, in breach of international human rights treaties to which Iran is party." For example, "connections to foreign institutions, persons, or sources of funding" are enough to bring criminal charges such as "undermining national security"
The Rights of the Child in Iran crime, the Article 91 of the Iranian Penal Code might be applied and the offender might be exempt from death penalty. Hanging is the most common form of capital punishment in Iran and it is either carried out in prisons or publicly on squares. The practice of stoning has been limited in the revised version of the Iranian Penal Code (2013). However, the new version of the Penal Code retains the use of stoning as "hadd" punishment. The Article 225 states that “the "hadd" punishment for zina of a man and a woman who meet the conditions of "ihsan" shall