UN reports raise intl. concerns over HR situation in US: Lawmaker

An Iranian legislator says the international community is concerned about the widespread violation of human rights in the United States.

“Concerns were raised at a meeting of the [UN] Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened to discuss reports on the human rights situation in the US and Western countries,” Seyyed Hossein Naqavi-Hosseini said on Tuesday.

The spokesman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee referred to torturing prisoners, illegal raids on people’s homes and detention of American citizens, as well as harsh interrogation methods in the US as cases of human rights violations documented in the UNHRC reports.

“More reports released about the violation of human rights in other Western countries such as Britain and France have also raised concerns,” he added.

Naqavi-Hosseini stated that the reports come despite the West’s hypocritical claims of supporting human rights and their accusations of human rights violations against other countries.

The lawmaker noted that the Iranian parliament has embarked on a mission along with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Union to expose violations of human rights by Western countries, including the US.