A/HRC/43/61 emblematic of denials or delays in providing medical attention associated with attempts to extract confessions or inflict punishment. Attempts to obtain a confession as a condition for medical treatment violates the provisions of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran,90 the Nelson Mandela Rules and the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in international law. The Government rejects the allegations and states that all three individuals have or had access to medical care, as guaranteed by articles 102 and 103 of the Executive Regulations of the Iranian Organization of State Prisons (Prison Regulations).91 50. The Special Rapporteur has received disturbing information that several prisoners have been denied medical treatment for injuries sustained during interrogations conducted by intelligence or security officers. Reports have been received of torture, including beating, kicking, punching, slapping and suspension by the arms and legs. One former detainee of the Zahedan intelligence detention centre informed the Special Rapporteur that he had been tortured by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and showed him a “medical bed” where prisoners were tied, tortured and subjected to a mock execution by hanging. 4. Broadcast of forced confessions 51. The Special Rapporteur is concerned about the practice of publicizing forced confessions. The Iranian authorities have a track record of broadcasting forced confessions and statements of repentance by political prisoners on State-run television channels and other media outlets. The confessions shown on State-funded media outlets are often made under torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or under duress. Televised confessions violate the provisions of article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the Islamic Republic of Iran is a party, and provisions from which no derogations or reservations are permissible. This practice also violates article 9 and the fair trial provisions set out in article 14 of the Covenant, as well as articles 37, 38 and 39 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran and article 91 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 52. The violations of the aforementioned provisions are particularly distressing in cases where detainees are charged with offences carrying serious punishments, including the death penalty. Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian academic, had his confession to spying on the Islamic Republic of Iran broadcast on State television in December 2017, five days after the Supreme Court had upheld his death sentence through a hastily convened and secret process during which no submissions from the defence had been allowed. 92 It is reported Mr. Djalali recorded the confession under duress, after his interrogators had said that he would be released from solitary confinement only if he recorded the confession. In other instances, televised confessions are used to deprive detained persons of their due process rights; without access to legal advice, individuals in such cases make selfincriminating statements publicly, thereby pronouncing their “guilt” in the absence of a trial. 53. In 2019, the women detained for participating in the White Wednesday campaign and appearing online without headscarves were tortured and ill-treated in an attempt to get them to confess their “guilt” and renounce the campaign in videos to be broadcast on State 89 90 91 92 14 www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/amnesty-international-welcomes-release-of-dr-homa-hoodfarfrom-prison-in-iran/. Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, art. 39. http://prisons.ir/%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%A2%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87%D9%87%D8%A7/%D8%A2%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%A7. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-42387308 and www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/12/iran-upholding-academics-death-sentence-in-secret-showsutter-contempt-for-right-to-life/.