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UN General Assembly condemns human rights violations in Iran |
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 Mrs. Maryam Rajavi:
Resolution underlines need to refer clerical regime's human rights
violations to the UN Security Council
NCRI - The UN General Assembly passed a resolution today condemning the brutal
and continued violations of human rights in Iran with 75 votes in
favor. 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.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect
congratulated the Iranian people on the approval of this resolution.
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. The resolution
indicates the grave failure of the so-called human rights dialogue with
the theocratic regime in Iran and underlines the need to refer the
regime's atrocities to the UN Security Council.
Mrs. Rajavi stressed that as the Iranian Resistance had pointed out
from the day Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office, the 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 referral to the United Nations Security Council is thus evermore
necessary.
The UN General Assembly 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, and 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.
The General Assembly also condemned 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 next session the following
year.
Last month the resolution was approved in the UN General Assembly's
Third Committee with a majority in favor, 54 against, 46 abstentions.
The General Assembly approved the resolution today with 75 in favor, 50
against, and 43 abstentions.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 16, 2005
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