What changed
Adds condemnation of Iran's transnational repression and its election to a UN body, and expands support for Iranians seeking freedom. #1#3 Broadens solidarity to explicitly support Iranians seeking freedom and an end to Islamist coercion. #2
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Change #1 Substance
Adds a recital condemning Iran's transnational repression by proxy, citing the case of Mohammad Amer Dadafarzin, detained and tortured in retaliation for his mother's human rights work.
E. whereas Iran engages in transnational repression through coercion by proxy, including in the case of Mohammad Amer Dadafarzin, the son of human rights defender Fariba Baloch, who has been held in arbitrary detention and tortured in retaliation for his mother’s human rights work and testimony before the European Parliament;
Change #2 Substance
Expands paragraph 1 to explicitly support Iranians seeking freedom and the right to live without Islamist coercion, in addition to expressing solidarity.
1. Expresses solidarity with the Iranian people and reaffirms that they are the sole legitimate source of sovereignty in Iran; supports the Iranian people who seek freedom and the right to live without Islamist coercion;
Change #3 Substance
Adds paragraph 8 strongly condemning Iran's election as Vice-Chair of the UN Commission for Social Development and the UN Secretary-General's congratulatory message, calling it legitimizing and undermining accountability.
8. Strongly condemns the election of the Islamic Republic of Iran as Vice-Chair of the UN Commission for Social Development and deplores reports that the UN Secretary-General sent a congratulatory message to the regime on the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, which legitimises a government responsible for mass killings, torture and arbitrary detentions and undermines international accountability;