A United Nations probe is accusing Iran of increasing human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings and torture. In a report to the U.N. General Assembly, Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, said hundreds of prisoners have been secretly killed and many more held without trial.

Ahmed Shaheed: “I was also concerned by reports of multifarious and systemic deficits in the administration of justice, including certain practices that amount to torture, cruel or degrading treatment of detainees; the imposition of the death penalty in the absence of proper judicial safeguards; the denial of reasonable access to legal counsel and adequate medical treatment; the existence of widespread use of both secret and public executions; the employment of capital punishment in juvenile cases; and the application of capital punishment in cases that do not hold up to the level of serious crimes by international standards, such as narcotics cases.”

The Iranian government has dismissed the report and in an apparent response says it has launched it’s own probe of human rights abuses committed by the United States.