{"id":22170,"date":"2018-11-17T03:22:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T03:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22170"},"modified":"2018-11-17T03:22:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T03:22:56","slug":"human-rights-violations-by-iran-regime-condemned-by-un-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22170","title":{"rendered":"Human rights violations by Iran regime condemned by UN committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1406051\/middle-east\" readability=\"76\">\n<p>\nNEW YORK: A UN committee on human rights has approved a resolution urging Iran to stop its widespread use of arbitrary detention and expressing serious concern at its \u201calarmingly high\u201d use of the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe General Assembly\u2019s Human Rights Committee adopted the resolution by a vote of 85-30, with 68 abstentions. It is virtually certain to be approved by the 193-member world body next month.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe resolution \u201cstrongly urges\u201d Iran to eliminate discrimination against women in law and practice and expresses \u201cserious concern about ongoing severe limitations and restrictions on the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIt singles out violations including harassment, intimidation and persecution against religious minorities including Christians, Gonabadi Dervishes, Jews, Sufi Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Yarsanis, Zoroastrians and members of the Baha\u2019i faith \u2014 and urges the release of religious practitioners including Baha\u2019i leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\nAmbassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi of Saudi Arabia said: \u201cThe Iranian people continue to suffer under a regime that does not respect human rights, that denies freedoms, that persecutes religious and racial minorities.\u201d He called on Iran not \u201cgive shelter to terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe resolution, sponsored by Canada, also calls on Iran to end \u201cwidespread and serious restrictions\u201d including on freedom of assembly of political opponents, human rights defenders, labor leaders, environmentalists, academics, filmmakers, journalists, bloggers, social media users and others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: A UN committee on human rights has approved a resolution urging Iran to stop its widespread use of arbitrary detention and expressing serious concern at its \u201calarmingly high\u201d use of the death penalty. The General Assembly\u2019s Human Rights Committee adopted the resolution by a vote of 85-30, with 68 abstentions. It is virtually&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}