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The UN Must Reconsider Its Policy On Iran’s Deteriorating Human Rights Record
ICHR strongly urges the international community to publicly condemn the deterioration in Iran’s human rights record, and denounce all the widespread human rights violations. Also They must ensure a concrete recommendations for the Iranian government to answer for their crimes against humanity.
“The government if Iran must answer for all the outrageous execution rates, unlawful persecution of human rights defenders, the crackdown discrimination against women, and minorities, as well as the ongoing crimes against humanity,” Said; Ardeshire Zarezadeh, Executive Director for Iran, and The Middle East at ICHR Canada.
The repertory of Dreadful violations recorded in Iran reveals an outrageous deterioration in its human rights record, which should not be ignored. Therefore the Iran’s upcoming UN human rights review session is a great opportunity for the international community to send a strong and clear message to the Iranian government that their disregard for human rights will not be tolerated.
“The UN human rights review session can also be considered a good opportunity for states to start an inquiry’s on the ongoing disappearance of thousands of political adversary’s over the past three decades, which is a crime against humanity that has been overlooked for far too long by the international community.” Said; Ardeshire Zarezadeh, Executive Director for Iran, and The Middle East at ICHR Canada.
The United Nation has appointed three special rapporteurs for Iran to monitor and report on the human rights situation in the country since 2011. And they have never been allowed to visit Iran while doing their annual reports.Meanwhile the level of repression by the authorities has risen significantly with their arbitrary arrests, prosecutions, tortures and daily executions.
Thousands of people have been rounded up for their freedom of expression or just simply for taking part in peaceful demonstrations, and they have been victims of governments vindictive crackdown against human rights defenders, including activists campaigning against forced hijab laws, all to destroy the last remnants of Iran’s civil society.
The government of Iran has further degraded fair trial rights and have executed more than 2,500 people, including juvenile offenders, which is in complete violation of international laws.
In abiding by the UN Human Right laws the government of Iran is failing on all counts. The international centre for Human Rights strongly calls on the government of Iran to lift restrictions and repression in the rights to freedom of expression, and peaceful assembly.
Also to end discrimination against women and minorities, as well as imposing an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty. They must also end torture, other ill-treatment, unfair trials and all the other ongoing crimes against humanity.
During its last review session, Iran accepted just 130 out of the 291 recommendations it received from other states. But all the analysis are indicating that the Iranian government has failed to deliver on the majority of those promises.
Iran has rejected all the calls during its last UPR to protect the rights of human rights defenders, stop their harassment and release those imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly.
“Not only they have not been co-operative with civil society and human rights organizations, the government of Iran has further ignored these rights by increasing their crackdown on the political adversary’s.” Said; Ardeshire Zarezadeh, Executive Director for Iran, and The Middle East at ICHR Canada.
The government of Iran must answer for all those unjustly imprisonments including the journalists, artists, human rights defenders, lawyers, women’s rights defenders, minority rights activists, labour rights activists, environmental activists and those seeking truth, also justice must be served for their crimes against the 1988 prison massacre.
The government of Iran has given extremely harsh prison sentences, to some of those mentioned prisoners, such as:
- Human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi whom were sentenced to 29 years and three months in prison, and 111 lashes for his human rights work, and he is required to serve 15 years of this sentence.
- Lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh whom were sentenced to 38 years and 148 lashes for her peaceful activism, and she is required to serve 17 years of her sentence.
- Civil rights activists Yasaman Aryani whom is only 24yes old was sentenced to 16 years in prison, for her peaceful activism, and she is required to serve 10 years of this sentence.
Their human rights violations doesn’t end there, the women and girls are subjected to discrimination in law and practice, Iran’s government has rejected ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and failed to criminalize gender-based violence, including marital rape, domestic violence and early and forced marriage.
Women’s rights defenders, including those who have campaigned against Iran’s discriminatory and forced hijab laws, have faced arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and other ill-treatment, unfair trials and lengthy prison sentences. They have also faced harassment and abuse by pro-government vigilantes for defying such laws.
Iran also continues to deny defendants the right to a fair trial, including by refusing them access to lawyers during investigations and trials, and continue to convict people based on “confessions” extracted through torture and other ill-treatment.
The government of Iran has a dreadful record of flouting prisoners’ right to health, deliberately denying medical care to prisoners of conscience, often as punishment, amounting to torture and other ill-treatment. Human rights defender Arash Sadeghi continues to be tortured through the denial of cancer treatment.
Meanwhile, in a relentless execution spree, more than 2,500 people have been put to death since Iran’s last UPR session, including at least 17 who were under 18 at the time of the crime, in flagrant violation of international law.
“The Iranian government must end their ongoing catastrophic deterioration of human rights records immediately. As well as atoning for their crimes committed against humanity.” Said Ardeshire Zarezadeh, Executive Director for Iran, and The Middle East at ICHR Canada.
“That means to immediately and unconditionally releasing prisoners of conscience, ending unlawful persecution’s of human rights defenders, as well as granting them right to a fair trial and putting an end to their ridiculous use of the death penalty by establishing an immediate moratorium with a view to abolishing it completely.” Said Ardeshire Zarezadeh, Executive Director for Iran, and The Middle East at ICHR Canada.
“It also means immediately disclosing the truth regarding the fate of victims of the 1988 massacres, stopping the destruction of mass grave sites containing the remains of the victims, and bringing to justice those suspected to be responsible for these crimes against humanity.”
ICHR strongly urges the international community to publicly condemn the deterioration in Iran’s human rights record, and denounce all the widespread human rights violations. Also They must ensure a concrete recommendations for the Iranian government to answer for their crimes against humanity.