International Coalition Demands the Human Rights Council to Condemn Iran for Its Systematic Human Rights Violations and Call for Release of all Political Prisoners
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 28, 2010 – An international coalition of human rights advocacy groups and organizations is demanding the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to condemn the state of human rights in Iran during the upcoming Universal Periodic Review of Iran on February 15, 2010. The group is also demanding that the Iranian leaders responsible for the widespread and systematic violation of human rights and crimes against humanity, be brought before the International Criminal Court by a referral of the UN Security Council.
The situation of human rights in Iran will be reviewed at the 7th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC), between February 15-17.
Iran has long been criticized by international human rights organizations for its persistent and extensive flouting of its human rights obligations under ICCPR and ICESCR. Women's rights activists, journalists, trade unionists, intellectuals, students, sexual minorities, religious and ethnic minorities, and human rights activists are routinely subject to harassment, discrimination, persecution, arbitrary arrest, detention and torture. Since the disputed June 12 presidential elections of 2009, however, Iran's human rights situation has reached a critical point of human suffering and destruction: the spontaneous protests denouncing the official result of the election have been violently repressed; hundreds of unarmed civilians protesting in the streets have been killed, and thousands more have been arbitrarily arrested including reformers, students, journalists and human rights defenders. Dozens of protestors and political opponents have been unfairly tried before Iran's Revolutionary Court and some have been sentenced to execution under the death penalty.
In response to this crisis, the coalition has mailed official letters to permanent missions of all state members to the United Nations Office in Geneva, urging them
1. to call on Iran to consent to visits to Iran of all relevant Special Procedures mandate-holders for purposes of inspecting the condition of prisons and prisoners in Iran
2. to initiate an investigation to identify those responsible for massive human-rights abuses; and to bring them before the International Criminal Court by a referral of the UN Security Council
3. to re-establish a special body for monitoring the human rights situation in Iran
The coalition insists that at this crucial juncture, the fulfillment of the above demands provides the only principled and realistic way to advocate and protect the rights of Iranian civilians.
To this day, the coalition consists of:
Anti-Violence Campaign for Peace, International Health & Epidemiology Research Centre (USA)
Cycling for Human Rights in Iran (Canada)
Federation Europerse (Europe)
Forum for Human Rights and democracy in Iran (Sweden)
Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America (International)
Iranian Queer Organization (Canada)
Iranian Human Rights Society at York University (Canada)
Iranian Society for Human Rights - Northern California (USA)
Neda Peace and Freedom (Canada)
Progressive American-Iranian Committee (USA)
Rights and Democracy for Iran (Canada)
Shahrvand Publication (Canada)
Society for Human Rights in Iran - Southern California (USA)
Solidarity with Iran (Canada)
Solidarity with Iranian Mothers (Belgium)
Solidarity with Iranian Mothers in Hamburg (Germany)
Society to Support Iranian People's Movement for Freedom, Human Rights and Democracy (Germany)
Supporters of "Mournful Mothers" of Iran in Los Angeles (USA)
The European Students' Union (Europe)
Voice of Women for Peace (Canada)
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