Iranian regime defends rights abuses, execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari

                 

NCRI - During a debate at the United Nations Headquarters, in response to international calls for the Iranian regime to allow freedoms of expression and religion, as well as concerns at a rise in executions, Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of Iran's High Council for Human Rights defended the Tehran regime’s record, including the brutal hanging of a 26-year-old women - a would-be victim of sexual assault by an intelligence official.

Despite an international campaign calling for her release, Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn on Saturday in Tehran's Evin prison after seven years of imprisonment, coupled with the psychological and physical torture of her and her family.

Defending the inhuman laws of the clerical regime (known as 'qisas' or law of retribution), Larijani shamelessly urged the Western countries to “look into it.”

He described 'qisas', the inhuman law sanctioning the gouging out of many eyes, the amputation of many hands, fingers and legs, and the execution of many juvenile offenders, as ‘a unique particularity’ of his regime, named by Iranian people as the “godfather of ISIS.”

The chief human rights official of the clerical regime told the Geneva forum during a regular review of the Iranian regime’s record: “Capital punishment or 'qisas' is a unique particularity of our system. I think it would be worthwhile for Western countries to look into it." His regime has earned the world's highest death penalty rate per capita.

Also in Tehran, the government of Hassan Rouhani, on Wednesday, endorsed the execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari and rejected the worldwide condemnation of her hanging, describing it as “meddling in a judicial case.”

“Meddling in a judicial case which has gone through full legal proceedings under the due process of law and in which the right of appeal has been granted is unacceptable,” Hassan Rouhani’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman - Marzieh Afkham - said on Wednesday.

Not only does the mullahs’ regime continue with the systematic violation of human rights in Iran, the collective and arbitrary executions and the heinous crimes such as splashing of acid on women, but it also ridicules all international conventions and laws despite sixty UN resolutions.

It is time for the United Nations General Assembly to refer the Iranian regime record of violations of human rights to the UN Security Council for the necessary measures to end the suffering of the Iranian people, and particularly the women.