TEHRAN – The Ministry of justice will increase the number of citizenship right clinics in all provinces of the country, the ministry’s deputy head for human rights and international affairs department has said.

The clinics will grow in number in cooperation with provincial municipalities and city councils, IRNA quoted Mahmoud Abbasi as saying Sunday.

Currently, the aforesaid clinics have achieved good results in 10 provinces of the country namely Qazvin, Yazd, Alborz, East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan, Isfahan, Gilan, Fars and Lorestan, Abbasi noted.

Citizenship right clinics are tasked with educating the public about citizenship rights and promoting citizenship rights and ethics, giving legal advices, psychological and social counseling, under supervision of a lawyer, a psychologist and a social worker, he explained.

The central citizenship right clinic in Yazd is known as the most successful center, which has taken great steps towards [promoting] citizenship rights in the province under management of Iran’s Bar Association, he mentioned.

He also noted that these clinic’s services are responsive to a large share of legal problems citizens are facing.

Citizenship right clinics can have a significant role in preventing social harm, he concluded.

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