UN committee targets Iran’s rights violations
Friday, November 20, 2009
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A United Nations committee has approved a resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents.
Citing arbitrary arrests, detentions and the disappearance of Iranians exercising their right to freedom following the June 12 presidential election, the General Assembly’s human rights committee approved the resolution today by a vote of 74-48 with 59 abstentions.
Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee dismissed claims about the election as “entirely misleading and incorrect.”
The resolution must now be approved at a plenary session of the 192-member world body.
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