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Geneva Conference Highlights Escalating Executions and Repression in Iran
Political figures, legal experts, and human-rights advocates at the UN European headquarters warn of escalating executions, restrictions on civil society, and renewed repression of political prisoners in Iran. A conference held at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva brought together political figures, legal experts, and human-rights advocates to discuss the deteriorating human-rights situation in Iran and the escalating wave of executions. Speakers highlighted growing restrictions on civil society, the use of broad security charges against political opponents, the denial of fair-trial guarantees, and the increasing targeting of lawyers, journalists, activists, students, and other critics of Iran’s regime. Ola Elvestuen: Iran’s Environmental Crisis Is Linked to Human Rights Norwegian parliamentarian Ola Elvestuen said Iran’s deepening human-rights crisis is inseparable from a wider environmental catastrophe affecting access to water, clean air, health, livelihoods, and basic living conditions. Speaking at the UN European headquarters in Geneva, Elvestuen, who served as Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment from 2018 to 2020, highlighted excessive groundwater extraction, land subsidence, water shortages, severe air pollution, recurring dust storms, and the destruction of forests and agricultural land. He noted that land subsidence in some parts of Iran has reportedly reached 20 to 30 centimeters per...
