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Geneva (Switzerland), November 25

India on Thursday abstained from voting on a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) decision to arrange a fact-finding mission to research the alleged human rights violation dedicated on protesters in Iran that began on September 16.

Taking to Twitter, United Nations Human Right Council mentioned, “At its 35th special session, the @UN Human Rights Council decided to create a new fact-finding mission to investigate “alleged #HumanRightsViolations within the Islamic Republic of #Iran associated to the protests that started on 16 September 2022.” This decision got here amid the protests that began on September 16 after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was taken into custody by Iran’s morality police for sporting an ‘inappropriate’ scarf, later died, drawing allegations of custodial violence.

Apart from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, UAE and Khakhastan had additionally abstained from the decision. Meanwhile, Pakistan and China rejected the decision.

However, the decision within the UNHRC was handed, with 25 votes in favour, six towards and 16 abstentions, at a particular session of the 47-member human rights physique and now the Human Rights Council has created a fact-finding mission, associated to the protests in Iran.

This follows calls from UN human rights chief Volker Turk for an unbiased investigation, UN News reported.

In the assembly, the UN High Commissioner highlighted how the safety forces, “notably the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij forces have used live ammunition, birdshot and other metal pellets, teargas and batons” towards the protest motion because it has unfold to a reported 150 cities and 140 universities in all provinces of Iran.

Before calling for an unbiased probe into all alleged rights violations, the High Commissioner famous that his Office had acquired “multiple communications” from Iran in regards to the episode, “including domestic investigations”. These efforts “have failed to meet international standards of impartiality, independence and transparency”, UN information quoted Turk as saying.

Responding to the High Commissioner’s feedback, Iran’s consultant, Khadijeh Karimi, Deputy of the Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, insisted that “necessary measures” had been taken to hunt justice by the Government, after Amini’s demise. These included the formation of an unbiased, parliamentary investigation fee in addition to a forensic medical crew.

“However, before the formal announcement of the probe analysis, the biased and hasty reaction of a number of Western authorities and their interventions in internal affairs of Iran turned the peaceful assemblies into riots and violence,” she maintained.

Since Amini’s demise following her arrest by Iran’s so-called Morality Police on September 13 for not sporting her hijab correctly, greater than 300 folks have been killed in protests, together with at the least 40 kids, in keeping with the most recent UN human rights workplace data.