November 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for the “immediate” release of the “thousands” of people who remain detained in Iran for their involvement in “peaceful” demonstrations following the death of the young Mahsa Amini, detained for breaching the Islamic dress code, and has expressed concern about nine cases that can lead to a death sentence.
The Iranian Prosecutor’s Office raised to more than a thousand indictments issued in the Tehran region alone, which would add to several hundred more throughout the country. The United Nations, however, believes that it is time to “drop the charges” against all the detainees.
“Human Rights regulations protect the rights of the population to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression,” stressed a spokesman for the High Commissioner, Jeremy Laurence, lamenting the “growing harshness” with which the Iranian authorities are responding to a wave of “unprecedented” mobilizations.
The UN is especially concerned about the situation of nine people who have been charged with crimes that can be punished with the death penalty. Laurence has opted for the abolition of this type of sentence and that, if applied, they do not affect “crimes that do not result directly or indirectly in situations of death.”
“Therefore, we urge the Iranian authorities to immediately impose a moratorium on the death penalty, to refrain from charging capital crimes and to revoke sentences that were not handed down for crimes that fall under the category of ‘most serious crimes’,” he stressed. the spokesperson.
