United Nations Human Rights Council against Iran
The United Nations Human Rights Council, in a special meeting regarding the Islamic Republic’s repression of the uprising across Iran, approved a resolution based on which an international fact-finding committee will be formed on probing Iran’s protests.
Twenty-five members of the Human Rights Council voted in favor and six members voted against in the voting of this UN-affiliated body to approve this resolution on Thursday, November 24. Sixteen members also abstained.
Hours before, in the emergency meeting of the Council at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights referred to the protests, cutting off the Internet and massive suppression of the protesters.
He also said that the investigations into the murder of Mahsa Amini were woefully inadequate and did not meet the standards of an impartial investigation.
Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, also mentioned referred to the attacks by the security forces and plainclothes officers on university campuses, the killing of underage protesters, the holding of show trials, coerced confessions, and the issuing of death sentences for protesters. He expressed grave concern about these developments.
In this meeting, representatives of other countries who were present demanded the lifting of restrictions and censorship on the media and journalists, as well as an end to the clamping down of civil rights activists in Iran.
The UN Human Rights Council meeting on the popular uprising in Iran came just two days after a similar meeting was held in the European Parliament.
In the meeting of the European Parliament, held to support the revolutionary uprising of the Iranian people, the representatives of the European Parliament demanded the designation of the entire IRGC in the list of terrorist organizations and the closing of the embassies of the Islamic Republic on the soil of the European Union.
