On Tuesday, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported that dozens of people have been killed in continuing protests across Iran – mostly by live ammunition.
On Thursday, November 14, 2019, the third committee of the UN General Assembly passed the resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran.
The following is an overview of the human rights situation in Iran for the month of October.
On 8 November in Geneva, 33 member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council examined the human rights record of the Iranian government in the last five years during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism. Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of the so-called Iranian government’s human rights commission, attended the meeting along with several government officials.
At a conference earlier this year, addressing the 1988 Iranian massacre, Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian opposition, called for the world to hold to account those responsible for this crime against humanity. In this short series, we will look at her speech in total.
Representatives of 33 countries, including the United States, criticized human rights abuses in Iran, ethnic and religious minorities, and continued executions of children in Iran during a periodic review of human rights in Iran.
