United Nations rebukes N Korea over rights violations

“Unfortunately they get votes because of certain considerations”, Zarif said, lashing out at the countries that vote in favor of such resolutions.

It also noted the “alarming high frequency” of the death penalty in Iran.

The United Nations also urges the country to put a stop to discrimination and other human rights violations against girls and women as well as religious minorities.

It demanded that Iran end what it said were “widespread and serious restrictions, in law and in practice, on the right to freedom of expression, opinion, association and peaceful assembly” of dissidents and human rights defenders.

AJC’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights continues to call for the release of Iranian political prisoners and reform of the country’s human rights performance.

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran Dr. Ahmed Shaheed and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have documented extensive, ongoing human rights violations in Iran.

He also reported that executions had been rising at an “exponential” rate between 2005 and peaked in 2014, at a “shocking” 753 executions, and that for the first seven months of 2015, the rate of executions “accelerated at a further staggering rate”.

Iranian officials criticized the resolution as an example of “Iranophobia”.

Iran’s deputy ambassador told the committee Thursday that the resolution represents “a selective and politicized distortion of facts”.

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China, Iran and Russian Federation were among the countries that voted against the measure that now goes to the full General Assembly.

While formally neutral on the four-year-old insurgency in the next-door Arab state, Israel has sought to raise alarm overseas about support given to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by Israel’s arch-foe Iran and Hezbollah guerrillas from Lebanon.

The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee resolution was adopted by a vote of 76 to 35, with 68 abstentions.

Human rights groups were expecting controversy over the draft resolution following the historic nuclear deal with Iran that opened up new avenues for cooperation with Tehran.

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Since the beginning of the Syria crisis in March 2011, Iran has been providing military consultations to the Syrian government in its battle against terrorist groups.