Stoning in Iran

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Stoning in Iran

Iranian officials have criticized on Thursday a UN investigator’s report that was saying that the abuses against the human rights were increasing in the Islamic republic. Iran blamed the European Union and the United States for the negative assessment of human rights observance in this country.

The report, forwarded by UN investigator Ahmed Shaheed to the UN Security Council, said that hundreds of prisoners have been secretly executed in Iran. Amnesty International said that Iran had the second-largest number of executions in the world last year.

In addition, the report speaks of other faults of the judicial system in this country: torture, cruel or degrading treatment of the detainees, imposition of the death penalty in the absence of proper judicial safeguards, and abuses linked to the situation of women.

Shaheed’s report also criticized the detention conditions of the prisoners that belong to the Iranian opposition: Mirhossein Mousavi, and Mehdi Karoubi and their wives. The report depicts their condition as deeply disturbing. These two opposition leaders were arrested for saying that the elections in 2009 were rigged.

Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Eshagh al-Habib criticized the report on Thursday, considering it inspired by poor sources, exaggerated and full of outdated allegations. “Its content,” he said, “is unwarranted and unacceptable for my country.”

Habib charged that the UN’s decision to appoint one rapporteur was the result of a one-sided approach and political ambition of the United States and the European countries. He added that the United States, which is the main enemy of Iran, spares no effort to manipulate the international public opinion about what is going on in the Islamic republic.

The deputy ambassador said that his country had been opened to provide all necessary information to the Special Rapporteur in order for a balanced, impartial, nonpolitical and well documented report to be issued.

The Third Committee was asked by Iran to rectify the report presented by Shaheed. The rapporteur said that while documenting his report he had not been allowed to visit Iran.

To counteract the report, an Iranian ayatollah, who’s the country’s chief judge, proposed that a report be made on the crimes committed by the United States on the territory of the Islamic nations.

These allegations of the Iranian officials seem in consistency with the opinion expressed by the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, related to the case of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, who was victim to an assassination plot which is believed to have been masterminded by Iranian Revolutionary Guard personnel.

Speaking about that, the Iranian president said it was a fabrication of the Americans and it is aimed at creating tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia. He added that FBI made up a bunch of papers and compared the case with the case of the weapons of mass destruction which the Americans accused Saddam Hussein of possessing.

Ahmadinejad also referred to the abuses made by the Americans, at home and abroad, and said that when the truth about the plot on the Saudi Arabian ambassador would surface, Iran would not be harmed at all.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are known for their cases of human rights infringement and for the brutality of the penal legislation.

Last year, the entire world rallied to protect the life of Sakineth Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 40-year-old woman who had been sentenced to be stoned for her alleged adultery and conspiracy to commit crimes.

After the international protest began, and the outgoing president of Brazil Ignacio Lula da Silva offered to give her sanctuary in his country, Ashtiani’s conviction was commuted to live in prison, only to be reduced in the end to five years in prison, after the entire world received at a point the news that she had been released.

Other people were executed at the beginning of the year for espionage in favor of Israel, for preaching the Christian word of God or for other offences considered in Iran “against God.”

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