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Iranian Lawyers to UN: Follow Your Own Rules, Deal With This 'Subhuman' Regime

September 25, 2022
OstanWire
2 min read
Protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini entered their ninth night on Saturday
Protests in Iran sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini entered their ninth night on Saturday

A consortium of Iranian lawyers have published a statement addressed to the United Nations and democratic governments worldwide asking them to appropriately deal with the “subhuman process of repression and killings in Iran."

The missive called for the attention and investigation of international bodies, free countries, and lawyers around the world. Among its signatories were the well-known lawyers Shirin Ebadi, Mehrangiz Kar and Saeed Dehghan.

The full text reads as follows:

"The Iranian people are currently under the harshest state-backed repression by the Islamic Republic at the same time as internet access has been restricted. The international community cannot and should not remain silent and indifferent.

“According to history and experience there is no hope for rational behavior by the Islamic Republic again in the face of the general will of the people. Us lawyers, in the course of fulfilling our legal and human responsibilities, strongly condemn the illegal and subhuman behavior of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and fully support the protest movement of the Iranian people. We impress upon those in receipt of this statement our proposals, and request of immediate action:

The United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the program of repression and killings in Iran by immediately forming a fact-finding commission; The United Nations, while realizing the guarantee of the implementation of existing international mechanisms, to prepare the ground for holding of a referendum in Iran’ Democratic governments in free countries, instead of insisting on negotiations with the authoritarian, repressive government of the Islamic Republic, to at once recall their ambassadors from Iran and recognize that delaying this action may be considered complicity against the people of Iran; Lawyers around the world, with the help of domestic and international legal associations and human rights organizations, to form an international committee for the defense of detainees to prevent the violation of prisoners’ human rights.

We ask all lawyers and lawyers' associations around the world to join this group and help attain these humanitarian aims.

 

Shirin Ebadi

Mehrangix Kar

Saeed Dehghan

Hossein Raisi

Musa Barzin

 Hossein Ahmadiniaz

Mohammad Moghimi

Majid Porastad

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