{"id":1305,"date":"2018-09-20T17:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2018-09-20T17:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:01:21","slug":"rouhani-should-be-called-to-account-for-human-rights-abuses-in-iran-at-un-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Rouhani Should Be Called to Account for Human Rights Abuses in Iran at UN Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/iransos.com\/en\/photo\/2011\/v\/vof.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran\u2019s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">September 19, 2018\u2014As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the international community to directly address the worsening human rights situation in Iran with the Iranian president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Diplomats should raise the issue of the arrests of peaceful activists, lawyers and others with Rouhani and the international media should hold Iranian officials accountable in interviews and press conferences by directly questioning them on the deteriorating rights situation in Iran, CHRI said in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFor five years, the Rouhani administration has avoided taking responsibility for the human rights crisis in Iran by hiding behind arguments that they have no control over an \u2018independent\u2019 judiciary,\u201d said Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYet Rouhani\u2019s own Intelligence Ministry is among the major rights violators in Iran through its arrests of activists and lawyers,\u201d Ghaemi added, \u201cand an \u2018independent\u2019 judiciary should not mean it gets a free pass to lock up peaceful citizens at whim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of CHRI\u2019s efforts to raise awareness and focus attention on the ongoing abuses, a mobile billboard displaying photos of some of the many political prisoners in Iran will traverse the area outside UN headquarters in NY during the meetings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prisoners featured on the truck\u2019s panels represent only a fraction of the political prisoners being held in Iran. CHRI hopes the unjust conditions of their imprisonment\u2014as well as the full range of rights violations in Iran\u2014will be brought up directly when the world\u2019s diplomats meet with their Iranian counterparts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the last two years, there has been an intensification of state repression in Iran, especially as citizen protests over deteriorating economic conditions, corruption, and political and cultural repression have erupted throughout much of the country. Under Rouhani\u2019s watch:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Human right lawyers have been jailed for defending political prisoners, including most recently prominent attorney\u00a0Nasrin Sotoudeh<\/li>\n<li>Activists have been arrested for defending citizens\u2019 rights, for example, Rouhani\u2019s Intelligence Ministry arrested the prominent rights activist\u00a0Narges Mohammadi, who still sits behind bars<\/li>\n<li>Women have been\u00a0jailedfor peacefully protesting\u00a0forced hijab<\/li>\n<li>Labor leaders have been sent to prison for defending workers\u2019 rights<\/li>\n<li>Detainees\u2019 rights to\u00a0due processare routinely denied, particularly regarding access to counsel<\/li>\n<li>Executions have been carried out against\u00a0juvenile offendersand despite evidence of \u201cconfessions\u201d elicited under torture<\/li>\n<li>Religious minorities, especially\u00a0Baha\u2019iand\u00a0Christian converts, are persecuted and prevented from openly practicing their religion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEven within the limitation of the president\u2019s power, Rouhani could still stop some of the continuous rights violations committed by his own Intelligence Ministry,\u201d said Ghaemi, \u201cand he could speak out against the massive rights violations by the judiciary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFive years into Rouhani\u2019s government, it is more clear than ever that human rights have no place in the president\u2019s agenda, despite the pledges he made during his election campaigns,\u201d Ghaemi added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For interviews, contact:<br \/>\nHadi Ghaemi<br \/>\n+1-917-669-5996<br \/>\nhadighaemi@iranhumanrights.org<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Visit our website:\u00a0www.iranhumanrights.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 19, 2018\u2014As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the international<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","tag-hassan-rouhani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}