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Iran-UN: General Assembly 3rd Committee condemned human rights violations in Iran |
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Saturday, 19 November 2005 |
 Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: Resolution leaves no excuse for appeasement of the mullahs
Human rights situation in Iran must be referred to the UN Security Council
The UN General Assembly Third Committee passed a resolution in its
session today condemning the brutal and continued violations of human
rights in Iran. The majority of UN member states voted in favor of the
resolution. The resolution strongly condemns the continuing use of
torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
continued carrying out of public executions, and, on a large scale,
other executions, and, in particular, deplores the execution of persons
who were below 18 years of age at the time their offence was committed,
and also continued violations of freedom of assembly, opinion and
expression, violations of the rights of women and religious and ethnic
minorities.
The resolution was approved despite the clerical regime's use of all
its diplomatic resources, with assistance from a number of other state
violators of human rights, to prevent a vote on the measure. This
resolution is, however, significantly tougher than last year's
resolution and was approved with a larger majority than the previous
year. The resolution was brought by 45 countries and with 77 countries
voting in favor of the condemnation.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect
congratulated the Iranian people for the condemnation of the clerical
regime's flagrant and systematic violations of human rights in Iran by
the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. She added that this
resolution while it only reflects a small portion of the clerical
regime's crimes against the Iranian people indicates the international
community's recognition of the unprecedented intensification of human
rights violations in Iran.
Mrs. Rajavi reiterated that the resolution by the Third Committee, the
52nd resolution by various UN bodies, in condemning executions,
torture, suppression, brutal and anti-human discrimination against
women, ethnic and religious minorities in Iran, leaves no excuse for
appeasing this medieval regime and shows that the failed policy of
human rights dialogue, which has only emboldened the mullahs in human
rights violations should be put aside once and for all.
Mrs. Rajavi pointed out that as the Iranian Resistance had pointed out
from the day Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was instated as the mullahs'
president, this regime has intensified its war and suppression on the
Iranian people and has declared war on the international community by
pursuing its export of terrorism and fundamentalism and its nuclear
weapons program. She added that the Iranian nation condemn any
appeasement of the clerical regime and seek a firm policy against the
mullahs and the referral of its violations of human rights, export of
terrorism, and its nuclear weapons program to the United Nations
Security Council.
The UN resolution condemns the continuing use of torture and cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment such as flogging and
amputations; the continued carrying out of public executions, including
multiple public executions and, on a large scale, other executions in
the absence of respect for internationally recognized safeguards, and,
in particular, deplores the execution of persons who were below 18
years of age at the time their offence was committed, contrary to the
obligations of the Iranian regime under article 37 of the Convention on
the Rights of the Child and article 6 of the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights and in spite of the announcement of a
moratorium on juvenile executions.
The Third Committee also condemned the continuing violence and
discrimination against women and girls in law and in practice, and the
refusal to take steps to address this systemic discrimination, noting
in this context its rejection to accede to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
The resolution also condemns the continuing harassment, intimidation
and persecution of human rights defenders, non-governmental
organizations, political opponents, religious dissenters, students,
clerics, academics and web bloggers, including through undue
restrictions on the freedoms of assembly, opinion and expression, the
use of arbitrary arrest, and the unjustified closure of newspapers and
blocking of Internet sites, as well as the absence of many necessary
conditions for free and fair elections.
The Third Committee also condemns the persistent failure to comply
fully with international standards in the administration of justice
and, in particular, the absence of due process of law, the refusal to
provide fair and public hearings, the denial of the right to counsel
and access to counsel by those detained, the use of national security
laws to deny human rights, the harassment, intimidation and persecution
of defence lawyers and legal defenders, the lack of respect for
internationally recognized safeguards, inter alia, with respect to
persons belonging to religious, ethnic or national minorities,
officially recognized or otherwise, the application of arbitrary prison
sentences, and the violation of the rights of detainees, including the
systematic and arbitrary use of prolonged solitary confinement, the
failure to provide proper medical care to those imprisoned and the
arbitrary denial of contact between detainees and their family members.
Also condemned are the continuing discrimination, and other human
rights violations against persons belonging to ethnic and religious
minorities, recognized or otherwise, including Arabs, Kurds, Baluchi,
Christians, Jews, Sunni Muslims, and the Bahá'ì.
The resolution decides that the General Assembly should continue its
examination of the situation of human rights in Iran at its sixty-first
session next year.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 18, 2005
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