{"id":21995,"date":"2021-05-01T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=21995"},"modified":"2021-04-29T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:14:09","slug":"us-resolution-calls-for-condemnation-of-iran-regime-for-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/05\/us-resolution-calls-for-condemnation-of-iran-regime-for-human-rights-abuses\/21995\/","title":{"rendered":"US Resolution Calls for Condemnation of Iran Regime for Human Rights Abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A resolution currently sitting in the House of Representatives<\/a> calls for US policy on Iran to be more assertive and for the Iranian regime to be held accountable for the oppression of protesters and the people at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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H. Res. 118<\/a>, which has gathered 225 co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle, cites two previous resolutions that had largely the same goals, with H. Res. 4744 calling for the US to \u201ccondemn Iranian human rights abuses against dissidents, including the massacre in 1988 and the suppression of political demonstrations in 1999, 2009, and 2017\u201d. The new bill goes further than that by including the crackdown on the November 2019 uprising<\/a>, which was around twice as big as its 2017 predecessor, where around 1,500 were shot dead<\/a> by the security forces and many thousands more are still under torture in prison, according to Amnesty International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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