UN adopts 71st resolution condemning the clerical regime for grave human rights violations

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: The rise in human rights abuses, disregard for UN resolutions, necessitates referring regime’s dossier to the Security Council and bringing the regime’s leaders to justice

Today, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted with a majority (77 in favor and 28 against) a resolution condemning the clerical regime’s egregious and systematic human rights violations. This is the 71 st UN resolution censuring human rights abuses in Iran. The resolution “condemns in the strongest terms the alarming increase in the application of death penalty,” including “the continued execution of women, which has reached the highest number of reported executions of women since 2013; the continued imposition of the death penalty…. against minors, and the use of the death penalty….as a tool of political repression.” The resolution also “condemns the measures used to repress protests, including the protests in….2022, notably the use of mass arrests and arbitrary detention…., including the use of force resulting in the death, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment during arrest, physical violence and psychological abuse in detention, including sexual and gender-based violence” to extract forced confessions, and “the imposition and administration of the death penalty against those connected to the protests.” Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), welcomed the resolution, which, in her words, highlighted a glimpse of the regime’s crimes. She said that the increasing and accelerated trend of human rights violations and the ruling religious fascism’s
disregard for UN resolutions amplifies the need to refer the dossier on the clerical regime’s crimes to the United Nations Security Council. Mrs. Rajavi added that in the four months since the new regime president took office, more than 500 prisoners have been executed, reflecting an approximately 80 percent rise in the number of execution relative to the same period during Ebrahim Raisi’s tenure. She recalled: As Professor Javaid Rahman, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran,emphasized in his July 2024 report, the leaders of the clerical regime must be brought to justice for crimes against humanity and genocide. The Special Rapporteur classified the executions of the 1980s and the 1988 massacre, the vast majority of whose victims were affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), as examples of genocide and crimes against humanity, and noted that those responsible for these crimes including the regime’s leader, continue to hold key positions, adding that that crimes against humanity continue to this day.
Those responsible for the executions of the 1980s are responsible for the killing of more than 1,500 protesters in November 2019 and the bloody suppression of the 2022 uprising with more than 750 martyrs, as well as daily executions in Iran, Mrs. Rajavi stressed. Emphasizing that impunity for the regime’s leaders has paved the way for the continuation of these
crimes, the NCRI President-elect said: The godfather of executions, assassinations, and warmongering must be expelled from all international forums. This is both the desire of the Iranian people and the imperative for global peace and tranquility today, Mrs. Rajavi said.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
November 20, 2023