The United Nations at the moment eliminated Iran from its ladies’s rights physique over the Islamic regime’s brutal crackdown of protests.
Twenty-nine members of the UN Financial and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to expel the Islamic republic from the United Nations Fee on the Standing of Girls (UNCSW).
Eight international locations voted towards and 16 abstained. A easy majority was wanted to undertake the transfer, which had been proposed by america.
The choice comes after Tehran on Monday executed a second man in reference to protests which have shaken the regime for months, defying a global outcry over its use of capital punishment towards these concerned within the motion.
Member international locations vote on the elimination of Iran from membership within the Fee on the Standing of Girls on the United Nations headquarters in New York Metropolis on Wednesday
Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, had been sentenced to loss of life by a court docket within the metropolis of Mashhad for killing two members of the safety forces with a knife, and wounding 4 different individuals, the judiciary’s Mizan On-line information company reported. It mentioned he was hanged in public within the metropolis, reasonably than inside jail.
He was executed simply over three weeks after he was arrested in November, rights teams mentioned.
The hanging additionally got here solely 4 days after Mohsen Shekari, additionally 23, was executed on Thursday on prices of wounding a member of the safety forces within the first case of the loss of life penalty getting used towards a protester.
The protests had been sparked by the September 16 loss of life in custody of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian arrested by the morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic’s strict gown code for girls.
Majidreza Rahnavard (left) had been sentenced to loss of life by a court docket within the metropolis of Mashhad for killing two members of the safety forces with a knife, and wounding 4 different individuals, the judiciary’s Mizan On-line information company reported. The hanging additionally got here solely 4 days after Mohsen Shekari (proper) was executed on Thursday
The executions drew a pointy rebuke from Iran’s arch-foe america, with State Division spokesman Ned Worth saying they ‘underscore how a lot the Iranian management truly fears its personal individuals’.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, informed ECOSOC earlier than the at the moment’s UN vote that eradicating Iran from the ladies’s physique was the appropriate factor to do, describing Tehran’s membership as an unpleasant stain on the fee’s credibility.’
Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani known as the U.S. transfer as unlawful, describing america as a bully.
Two protesters had been killed in Nasiriyah in clashes with safety forces at a rally after an activist was handed a jail time period, authorities mentioned
The 45-member Fee on the Standing of Girls meets yearly each March and goals to advertise gender equality and the empowerment of girls.
Iran, 17 different states and the Palestinians had argued in a letter to ECOSOC on Monday {that a} vote ‘will undoubtedly create an unwelcome precedent that can finally stop different Member States with completely different cultures, customs and traditions… from contributing to the actions of such Commissions.’
Solely 5 of the signatories to the letter are presently ECOSOC members and had been capable of vote on Wednesday.
The Islamic Republic on Monday hanged a person in public who state media mentioned had been convicted of killing two members of the safety forces, the second execution in lower than per week of individuals concerned in protests towards Iran’s ruling theocracy.
Nationwide unrest erupted three months in the past after the loss of life whereas in detention of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian lady Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police implementing the Islamic Republic’s necessary gown code legal guidelines.
The demonstrations have became a well-liked revolt by livid Iranians from all layers of society, posing one of the vital vital legitimacy challenges to the Shi’ite clerical elite for the reason that 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iran has blamed its overseas enemies and their brokers for the unrest.
The Geneva-based U.N. Rights Council voted final month to nominate an impartial investigation into Iran’s lethal repression of protests, passing the movement to cheers of activists. Tehran {accused} Western states of utilizing the council to focus on Iran in an ‘appalling and disgraceful’ transfer.
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