Maryam Rajavi calls for the referral of the regime’s leaders to international tribunal
NCRI – This evening, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly issued a resolution condemning the gross violations of human rights in Iran.
The action came despite frantic attempts by the mullahs' regime to bribe some governments into adding it to escape the international censure for its rights abuses. This is the fifty-fifth such resolution by various United Nations bodies. This year's resolution was based on the UN Secretary General's report on Iranian regime's human rights violations. It expresses deep concern over the "ongoing systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of the Islamic Republic of Iran" such as "torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment such as flogging and amputations, public executions, stoning as a method of execution, execution of persons who were below 18 years of age at the time their offence was committed, arrests of and violent crackdowns on women exercising their right to assembly, increasing discrimination and other human rights violations against persons belonging to religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minorities, ongoing and serious restrictions of freedom of opinion and expression, peaceful assembly and association, and the increasing harassment, intimidation and persecution of human rights defenders."
In addition, the resolution "Requests an update from the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including its cooperation with international human rights mechanisms, at its sixty-fourth session."
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance congratulated the Iranian people and all defenders of human rights throughout the world for adoption of the resolution and added, "At the time when the world is witnessing the execution of juveniles and political prisoners under torture in Iran, despite the fact that the resolution covers only a fraction of the crimes committed by the mullahs’ regime, it clearly demonstrate the fact that the ruling religious fascism does not value any of the basic human rights principles and international covenants. Thus, it has no merit to be a part of international community and should be isolated."
She said, with the passing of the new resolution, it is high time to refer the Iranian regime’s dossier to the U.N. Security Council and the leaders of the mullahs’ regime to stand trial in an international tribunal for the gross violations of human rights including more than 120,000 political executions as well as its terrorist crimes abroad. The regime’s crimes in the past three decades amount to crimes against humanity.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 21, 2008
