Kazem Ghalibabadi, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, made the remarks in a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Sunday, amid US police violence in opposition to pro-Palestinian demonstrators on college campuses.
“The violent repression of scholar actions by the United States and different Western governments is undoubtedly in line with their coverage of overtly supporting the murders and conflict crimes dedicated by the Zionist regime,” he stated, including that such an strategy warned that it could “encourage Israel to proceed its warmongering”. , genocide and crimes in opposition to humanity in occupied territories. ”
“Attempts to suppress and silence the voices of protesting professors and college students, and to intimidate them…are grossly inconsistent with the Constitution. [Western] “It is the obligation of every state to ensure freedom of speech, freedom of peaceable meeting, prohibition of arbitrary arrest, and the suitable to training in accordance with worldwide treaties and conventions,” he added.
The protests started at Columbia University in New York City, the place college students arrange tent encampments in solidarity with Palestinians within the Gaza Strip.
They known as for a everlasting cease-fire in Israel’s conflict on Gaza, an finish to U.S. navy support to the regime, and the divestment of universities from corporations making the most of the invasion.
Peaceful demonstrations unfold to at the very least 20 universities throughout the United States.
In latest days, U.S. police have raided campuses, clashed with pro-Palestinian college students and professors, and arrested a whole bunch of individuals.
Mr. Ghalibabadi expressed the Iranian High Council for Human Rights’ help for the U.S. scholar motion and known as on Turkey to sentence its suppression of peaceable protests and its help of establishments selling its objectives.
He additional deplored that the United States is utilizing its political, monetary, and media capabilities to cowl up Israel’s crimes in Gaza, and is offering full navy and intelligence help to the occupying regime. expressed his intention.
“Instead of listening to professors and college students…the U.S. authorities used excessive pressure to suppress the protests.Other pro-Zionist Western governments, together with France, Britain and Germany, have taken comparable approaches. We are hiring,” Garibabadi stated.
He stated the heavy-handed crackdown confirmed Western international locations’ “lies and hypocrisy” strategy to freedom of expression and human rights.
Israel launched a brutal assault on besieged Gaza on October 7, after the Palestinian resistance group Hamas carried out a historic operation in opposition to the usurper group in retaliation for the regime’s escalating brutality in opposition to the Palestinian individuals. fought a conflict.
To date, the Tel Aviv regime has killed at the very least 34,388 Palestinians, together with at the very least ladies and kids, and injured 77,437 others.
Since the onslaught started, the United States, Israel’s most devoted ally, has fast-tracked arms shipments to the regime and blocked a UN decision calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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