Iranian Envoy Slams Human Rights Violation by British Police

Iranian Ambassador Masqat Hossein Noushabadi condemned the continued and severe violation of human rights by the British police, and urged London to stop violence against people.
“The violent behavior of the British police towards the people is a blatant violation of human rights, disregard for international conventions on human rights and violation of the international covenants in support of the citizens’ civil and political rights which have been approved at the UN,” Noushabadi said on Saturday.

He also reiterated that the British police and government’s violent measures against protestors have well unveiled the true nature of the arrogant powers and their false support for civil freedoms and citizens’ and human rights.

As Britain continues suppressive policies and police clamp down on protesters and kill people, British papers said repairing London’s international reputation will take years.

“It was, quite simply, one of the most disturbing and shaming weeks in Britain’s post-war history – a week in which it took the almost saintly compassion of a Muslim father, whose son died in the violence, to remind us of the true meaning of decency,” the Daily Mail said in a report today.

“But we should be under no misapprehension: these scenes of wanton anarchy have damaged the reputation of this country in a way that will take years to repair,” the report added.

The unrest in Britain began on August 6 in the North London suburb of Tottenham after a few hundred people gathered outside a police station to protest the fatal police shooting of a black man, Mark Duggan.

The country’s worst unrests since the 1980s has spilled over into major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol.

Five people have reportedly died and hundreds of others have been arrested so far.