{"id":6599,"date":"2016-12-21T00:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T05:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2016-12-21T00:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T05:23:37","slug":"63rd-unga-resolution-condemning-irans-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6599\/","title":{"rendered":"63rd UNGA resolution condemning Iran\u2019s human rights violations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ncri-statement-400\"Rajavi: Resolution makes UNSC referral of Iran\u2019s crimes, prosecution of senior officials more essential
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On December 19, 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted its 63rd resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran.
\nIranian Resistance President-elect Maryam Rajavi <\/a> said the 63rd resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran, shedding light only on a tip of the iceberg on the Iranian regime\u2019s inhumane crimes, makes it more essential than ever the referral of this regime\u2019s dossier of systematic and dire human rights violations to the United Nations <\/a> Security Council, as well as the prosecution of its senior officials. This resolution clearly testifies the catastrophic results of the international community\u2019s appeasement policy and inaction vis-\u00e0-vis this regime with a record of executing 120,000 political prisoners, including massacring 30,000 political prisoners in the span of a mere few months during the summer of 1988.
\nThis resolution, adopted with 85 votes in favor, expresses ‘serious concern at the alarmingly high frequency of the imposition and carrying-out of the death penalty by the (Iranian regime)\u2026 including executions undertaken for crimes that do not qualify as the most serious crimes, on the basis of forced confessions or against minors and persons who at the time of their offence were under the age of 18\u2026’ It also called on the Iranian regime ‘to abolish, in law and in practice, public executions,’ and demanded the regime ‘to ensure, in law and in practice, that no one is subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’
\nPraising the persistance of political prisoners in the face of the regime\u2019s increasing pressures, Mrs. Rajavi called for the U.N.\u2019s intervention in defense of these political prisoners.
\n\u201cConceding concessions to the religious autocracy ruling Iran under the pretext of signing the nuclear deal or supporting the so-called \u2018moderates\u2019 inside the regime not only has failed to decrease domestic crackdown inside Iran, but has actually led to the regime becoming more ruthless, and has imposed irrecoverable damages upon the people of Iran and the entire region. Today, the Iranian people are not the only victims of this regime\u2019s crimes. In fact, the fire of Tehran\u2019s policies has engulfed the entire region. The same criminals who consider their role in the 1988 massacre as a source of pride are these days very vividly admitting to crimes against humanity in Aleppo, describing it as a glorious victory and holding \u2018thanksgiving\u2019 ceremonies for such a cause,\u201d she said.
\nThe UN resolution urged Tehran ‘to cease enforced disappearances’ and ‘address the poor conditions of prisons, to eliminate the denial of access to adequate medical treatment and the consequent risk of death faced by prisoners.’ It further urged the regime ‘to end widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly, both online and offline, including by ending the harassment, intimidation and persecution of political opponents, human rights defenders, women\u2019s and minority rights activists\u2026’ and ‘to release persons arbitrarily detained for the legitimate exercise of these rights, to consider rescinding unduly harsh sentences, including the death penalty and long-term internal exile, for exercising such fundamental freedoms’ and ‘to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other human rights violations against women and girls,’ as well as against ‘persons belonging to ethnic, linguistic or other minorities.’<\/p>\n

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
\nDecember 19, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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