 In February 2019, a group of United Nations human rights experts condemned the execution of child offenders in Iran.These experts included, Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on torture from Switzerland, Agnes Callamard Special Rapporteur on arbitrary executions from France, Renate Winter Rights of the Child from Australia and Javaid Rehman from Pakistan, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.A 2005 Human Rights Watch document, criticizes "Parallel Institutions" ("nahad-e movazi") in the Islamic Republic, "the quasi-official organs of repression that have become increasingly open in crushing student protests, detaining activists, writers, and journalists in secret prisons, and threatening pro-democracy speakers and audiences at public events."