Canadian Parliament censures human rights abuses in Iran

NCRI, 26 March 2011  – The Canadian Parliament has condemned human rights violations in Iran, calling on the government to slap sanctions on regime officials responsible for such abuses.
The petition was introduced by Liberal MP and former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler in the House of Commons. It was unanimously adopted last week by the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Human Rights.
The motion condemns “the deteriorating crisis in human rights” in Iran under the clerical regime, saying the regime is “engaged in widespread and systematic assaults on the human rights of its own people, including a state-orchestrated wave of arrests, detentions, beatings, torture, disappearances, and executions.”
It also points out that “the rate of executions in Iran has dramatically escalated in 2011.”
“The human rights crisis in Iran be a priority for Canadian foreign policy,” the motion says.
It also calls on the government of Canada to “sanction the major human rights violators responsible for the ordering of, and complicity in, the wanton executions and massive assaults on human rights, and put them on notice that they will be held accountable before the law.”