Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 94 — Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights
§ 8755. Statement of policy on political prisoners
Statutory text
It shall be the policy of the United States—
to support efforts to research and identify prisoners of conscience and cases of human rights abuses in Iran;
to offer refugee status or political asylum in the United States to political dissidents in Iran if requested and consistent with the laws and national security interests of the United States;
to offer to assist, through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, with the relocation of such political prisoners to other countries if requested, as appropriate and with appropriate consideration for the national security interests of the United States; and
to publicly call for the release of Iranian dissidents by name and raise awareness with respect to individual cases of Iranian dissidents and prisoners of conscience, as appropriate and if requested by the dissidents or prisoners themselves or their families.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012
Pub. L. 112–158 title IV § 415 · 126 Stat. 1214
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 8755
(Pub. L. 112–158, title IV, § 415, Aug. 10, 2012, 126 Stat. 1257.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 112–158, title IV, § 415, Aug. 10, 2012, 126 Stat. 1257.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 415. STATEMENT OF POLICY ON POLITICAL PRISONERS. It shall be the policy of the United States— (1) to support efforts to research and identify prisoners of conscience and cases of human rights abuses in Iran; (2) to offer refugee status or political asylum in the United States to political dissidents in Iran if requested and consistent with the laws and national security interests of the United States; (3) to offer to assist, through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, with the relocation of such political prisoners to other countries if requested, as appropriate and with appropriate consideration for the national security interests of the United States; and (4) to publicly call for the release of Iranian dissidents by name and raise awareness with respect to individual cases of Iranian dissidents and prisoners of conscience, as appropriate and if requested by the dissidents or prisoners themselves or their families.
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