The non-binding resolution was introduced to the Third Committee, which focuses on social, humanitarian and cultural issues. Seventy-six countries voted in favor of its passage, 35 voted against and 68 abstained. “The death toll of Iranians is not high”.
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It demanded that Iran end what it said were “widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly” of dissidents and human rights defenders.
AJC’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights continues to call for the release of Iranian political prisoners and reform of the country’s human rights performance.
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran Dr. Ahmed Shaheed and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have documented extensive, ongoing human rights violations in Iran.
The resolution is based on a report by a United Nations investigator who says executions in Iran have been rising at “an exponential rate” since 2005 and could top 1,000 this year.
Iran’s Deputy UN Ambassador Gholamhossein Dehghani dismissed the resolution as “hostile” and “short-sighted”, saying it ignored “the real threats to the most fundamental rights by violent extremists”.
“The Iranian authorities shouldn’t think they are getting a pass on human rights just because the nuclear accord has been signed”, said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, on Tuesday.
Past year the resolution was adopted by a stronger margin, with 125 countries voting in favour, 13 against and 47 abstentions.
The resolution, along with similar ones on North Korea, Myanmar and Syria, will go to a new vote at a General Assembly plenary session next month.
The committee on November 19 approved a nonbinding resolution drafted by Canada that expresses serious concern about rights violations in the Islamic republic.
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The Israeli intelligence community estimates that over 55 Iranians have died fighting for the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a toll that has undermined domestic support for continued Iranian intervention in Syria, Reuters reported Friday.
