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Rights groups call on Iran to end 'forced confessions' of prisoners on TV



Analysis showed that between 2009 and 2019, Iranian state media broadcast forced confessions from least 355 individuals

Updated 46 min 28 sec ago

AFP

June 25, 2020 08:00

PARIS: Iran must end the "forced confessions“ of prisoners broadcast on state-owned television, two rights groups said Thursday, arguing it amounted to torture and the perpetrators should risk legal consequences abroad.

The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights and its member organization Justice for Iran (JFI), a London-based judicial accountability group, said their analysis showed that between 2009 and 2019, Iranian state media broadcast forced confessions from least 355 individuals.

It had also broadcast defamatory content against at least 505 individuals, they added, destroying their credibility as a legitimate news organization.

"The use of forced confessions broadcast by state-owned media has been systematically used by the Iranian authorities to repress dissent for decades,“ said FIDH Secretary-General Adilur Rahman Khan.

"It's time for the international community to press Iran to end this practice, which is the source of many grave human rights violations,“ he added.

Their report said that forced confessions have been "systematically broadcast“ by Iranian state-owned media "to