EXCLUSIVE United States to put United Nations focus on Iran protests - Reuters

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28 (Reuters) - The United States volition adjacent week enactment the United Nations spotlight connected protests successful Iran sparked by the decease of a young pistillate successful constabulary custody and look for ways to beforehand credible, autarkic investigations into Iranian quality rights abuses.

The United States and Albania volition clasp an informal U.N. Security Council gathering connected Wednesday, according to a enactment outlining the event, seen by Reuters. Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and Iranian-born histrion and activistic Nazanin Boniadi are acceptable to brief.

"The gathering volition item the ongoing repression of women and girls and members of spiritual and taste number groups successful Iran," the enactment said. "It volition place opportunities to beforehand credible, autarkic investigations into the Iranian government's quality rights violations and abuses."

Independent U.N. researcher connected quality rights successful Iran, Javaid Rehman, is besides owed to code the meeting, which tin beryllium attended by different U.N. subordinate states and rights groups.

Iran has been gripped by protests since the decease of 22-year-old Kurdish pistillate Mahsa Amini successful constabulary custody past month. The unrest has turned into a fashionable revolt by Iranians from each layers of society, posing 1 of the boldest challenges to the clerical enactment since the 1979 revolution.

Iran has blamed its overseas enemies and their agents for the unrest.

Iran's ngo to the United Nations successful New York accused the United States and it allies of abusing their level "to further their governmental agenda."

"Given its hypocrisy, usage of a treble standard, and selective exertion of quality rights, we find the U.S.'s claims to enactment Iranian women to beryllium deceptive and lacking successful bully faith," it said.

Rights groups person said astatine slightest 250 protesters person been killed and thousands arrested crossed the country. Women person played a salient portion successful the protests, removing and burning veils. The deaths of respective teenage girls reportedly killed during protests person fuelled much anger.

"The gathering volition underscore ongoing unlawful usage of unit against protesters and the Iranian regime's pursuit of quality rights defenders and dissidents overseas to abduct oregon assassinate them successful contravention of planetary law," work the enactment astir the planned meeting.

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric connected Friday urged the Iranian authorities to code the "legitimate grievances of the population, including with respect to women's rights."

"We condemn each incidents that person resulted successful decease oregon superior wounded to protestors and reiterate that information forces indispensable debar each unnecessary oregon disproportionate usage of unit against peaceful protestors," Dujarric told reporters. "Those liable indispensable beryllium held to account."

Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Daniel Wallis

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