Iran was expelled from the UN Commission on the Status of Women on Wednesday for its oppressive policies on women and its brutal crackdown on protesters.
Twenty-nine members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted to expel Tehran after the United States called on the 54-member body to immediately withdraw the Islamic Republic of Iran from the commission “for the remainder of its term.” 2022-2026″. “
In a statement before Wednesday’s vote, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield argued that the commission could not “do its important job if it is being undermined from within.”
FILE – In this photo taken by a non-Associated Press employee and obtained by AP outside Iran, Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by morality police in Tehran , October 1st. , 2022.
(The Associated Press)
AT LEAST 24 IN IRAN FACE EXECUTION FOR PARTICIPATION IN PROTESTS
“The Commission is the main UN body for promoting gender equality and empowering women,” she said before the vote. “Iran’s membership at the moment is an ugly stain on the credibility of the Commission.”
Some 16 nations abstained from voting, while 8 countries, including China, opposed Iran’s removal from the commission.
Thomas-Greenfield defended the work of women’s rights activists in Iran who protested against the Khamenei regime and called on the UN to take action.
Tehran has been the subject of international anger following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was killed while in police custody in September and whose death sparked thousands of protests across the country.
A woman yells during a protest against the Iranian regime in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, October 22, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic republic’s notorious “morality police.”
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
IRAN EXECUTES FIRST PROTESTER SINCE NATIONWIDE DEMONSTRATIONS FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS BEGAN
Amini was arrested and beaten by Iran’s morality police for wearing her hijab incorrectly before succumbing to her injuries.
Since then, the women have shed their hijabs, cut their hair and have taken to the streets together with their male supporters in protest, calling on the regime to end its oppressive policies and address human rights abuses.
“The Iranian government probably thought Mahsa’s death would be just another statistic. A small addition to their long history of state-sponsored violence against women,” Thomas-Greenfield said Wednesday. “But this time, this time, it was different.”
More than 18,400 people have apparently he has been arrested with reports of disappearances, solidarity confinement and torture that have continued ever since.
Iranians protest the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was detained by the moral police, in Tehran, on September 20, 2022.
(AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)
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At least two men have been hanged for their involvement in the protests and another 23 have reportedly been sentenced to death.
Iran has reportedly called for a new intelligence agency to be installed within its judiciary to counter the “propaganda campaigns of global arrogance,” Iran International reported Tuesday in an apparent reference to Western opposition to the brutal policies of Iran. Tehran.
