On Tuesday, the United Nations condemned the Iranian escalation in response to the demonstrations, asking the Iranian authorities to approve an immediate suspension of the death penalty.
A spokesman for the Human Rights Council at the United Nations, Jeremy Lawrence, said during a routine press conference in Geneva that the High Commissioner for Human Rights “Volker Turk” believes that the number of increasing deaths due to demonstrations in Iran, including the death of two children at the end of the week and the tightening of the security forces, indicates that the situation is Critical in the country.
The United Nations Commission for Human Rights considered that the situation in Iran was “embarrassed”, when describing it to strict the authorities’ response to the protests that have killed more than 300 people in the past two months.
“We urge your powers to address people’s demands for equality, dignity and rights instead of using unnecessary or incompatible force to suppress the protests,” the delegate at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Iran has been witnessing protests throughout the country since the death of the 22 -year -old Kurdish woman, Muhsa Amini, in the police seizure on September 16, after being arrested for wearing “inappropriate” clothes..
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