United Nations Website – 23 June 2014
General Debate on Human Rights Situations that Require the Council’s Attention

(Excerpts on Iran)
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Baha’i International Community recalled that in the previous session Iran had claimed that the rights of the Baha’i community were respected.  Days later, bulldozers had destroyed the Baha’i cemetery in Shiraz.  The international community should call on Iran to avoid the desecration of the cemetery and to respect the rights of the Baha’i.

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United Nations Watch said that if the human rights situation was so horrific in the United States,  United Kingdom and Canada, why was it that so many Iranians along with many others lined up to emigrate to those countries?  The reality today was that Iranian defence lawyers were imprisoned and beaten for defending Iranian citizens.  When would there be human rights in Iran?

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In Iran, plain-clothed agents and guards attacked prisoners and subjected them to inhumane treatment.