NCRI – This evening, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly issued a resolution condemning the violations of human rights in Iran such as arbitrary executions, torture and inhuman punishments. This is the fifty-third such resolution by various United Nations bodies.
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.”
Mrs. Rajavi reiterated that the resolution is indicative of the international community’s abhorrence against the religious fascism ruling Iran. "It once again underscores the need for referral of the regime’s human rights file to the U.N. Security Council. She said that it is time for 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 across the world. The regime’s crimes in the past 27 years amounts to crimes against humanity," she said.
The President-elect of the Iranian Resistance emphasized that the role of leaders of the mullahs’ regime such as Ali Khamenei, Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and etc. in the terrorist activities abroad have been confirmed by the judicial systems of other countries such as Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Argentina. The judicial decisions made it more important for the U.N. Security Council to intervene and refer their dossier to an international court of justice for review.
The resolution by the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly expressed its grave concern over the continued use of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment such as flogging and amputation; the continuing of public executions, including multiple executions and, on a large scale, the issuing of sentences of stoning and, in particular, deplores the execution of persons who were under the age of 18 at the time their offences were committed, the continuing violence and discrimination against women and girls by law and in practice, brutal crackdown on women exercising their rights of assembly; the increasing discrimination, and other human rights violations against persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, the destruction of sites of religious importance, the denial of freedom of religious or of publicly carrying out communal affairs, the persistent failure to comply with international standards, the refusal to provide fair and public hearings, the denial of the right to counsel by those detained, the use of national security laws to deny human rights; the violations 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.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 21, 2006