UN condemns Tehran on rights
Canadian-backed resolution adopted
Notes `serious concerns’ over violations
Dec. 17, 2005. 01:00 AM
OLIVIA WARD
As international tensions with Iran approach the crisis point, a Canadian-backed vote to censure Tehran for its human rights violations passed yesterday in the UN General Assembly.
The resolution, adopted 75-50, with 43 abstentions, was non-binding, but served notice the world community opposes the excesses of Iran’s hardline government, which is accused of torture, persecution of dissidents, politically motivated killings and restriction of free speech. More.
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