Thank you, Mr. President.
I wish to thank Albania and the United States for organizing this vital and welcome assembly. France thanks the Special Rapporteur and Mrs. Nazanin Boniadi and Mrs. Shirin Ebadi for his or her vital and eloquent testimony.
We honor the reminiscence of Mahsa Amini and all of the victims of the Iranian regime’s oppression. We salute the braveness and willpower of the protesters within the face of repression.
Special Rapporteur: Your report for July 2022 has already famous the deterioration of the human rights scenario in nearly all areas of Iran.
There has been an alarming improve within the variety of executions and loss of life sentences, together with towards minors and LGBT+ rights defenders.
Discriminatory authorized provisions live on that violate the human rights of ladies and ladies. The oppression towards them is extraordinarily extreme. Perpetrators of sexual violence go unpunished.
Pressure is mounting towards human rights defenders, journalists, filmmakers and Iranian figures devoted to defending freedom of expression.
Arbitrary arrest, torture and degrading remedy, and compelled confessions are widespread. These acts are particularly carried out towards overseas or binational individuals who’re used as hostages of the state.
President’s spouse,
This scenario has worsened to an unprecedented diploma in latest weeks. France condemns within the strongest doable phrases the rising human rights violations towards the backdrop of the brutal and unacceptable repression by the Iranian safety companies, which can’t be justified in any means.
France condemns all types of violence towards demonstrators, arrests and arbitrary detention, in addition to flagrant assaults on girls’s rights and freedom of expression by the blocking of knowledge websites and social networks. France additionally condemns arbitrary skilled arrests of journalists.
Together with our European companions, we are going to reply with the utmost firmness to these accountable for these gross human rights violations. As Ireland reminded us, the European Union adopted sanctions towards a few of them on October seventeenth. France continues to work with its European companions to think about new focused sanctions in case Iran continues this crackdown.
France reiterated its name to Iran to totally respect worldwide human rights devices, together with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The report calls on Iran to fight all types of violence towards girls and ladies and the discrimination and inequality they’re subjected to in each the private and non-private spheres, particularly the discrimination and inequality attributable to the ethical police. We are calling for an finish to equality.
thanks.