Maryam Rajavi calls for referral of the regime’s human rights dossier to the UN Security Council and demands the regime’s leaders to be hauled before an 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. This is the fifty-forth such resolution by various United Nations bodies. 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."
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, congratulated the Iranian people and all defenders of human rights throughout the world for adoption of the resolution and added, “Despite the fact that the resolution covers only a fraction of the crimes committed by the mullahs’ regime, it shows clearly that the medieval regime does not have merit to be a part of international community and should be isolated.”
She reiterated that the mullahs’ inhuman regime has set a new record of human rights violations this year. The group and public hangings has more than doubled the number of executions last year. The crimes of this regime have certainly not just been limited to Iran and they have included other countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine. The fact is that ruling religious fascism has declared an all out war not only on Iranian people but on the people of all counties in the Middle East.
Mrs. Rajavi said that it is high time for the referral of the regime’s human rights 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 their terrorist crimes abroad. The regime’s crimes in the past three decades amount to crimes against humanity.
Secretariat of National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 20, 2007