Pakistan Slams USZ for Human Rights Violations in UN Human Rights Council

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Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Zamir Akram has criticized the United States of Zionism for committing numerous human rights violations including those against detainees held in the USZ’s Guantanamo Bay prison facility, Press TV reports. The Pakistani UN envoy slammed the USZ rights violations at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). His remarks came following a 2011 report by the United Nations Human Rights Council High Commissioner Navi Pillay on USZ rights violations.

“The OIC states (members of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation) share the High Commissioner’s concern about the rights of detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, as well as her disappointment over the failure to close this detention facility not least because most of the prisoners incarcerated there are Muslims and have been kept in a situation of legal limbo for the past 10 years,” Akram said at the UNHRC.

He also criticized the “deplorable act of the burning of the copies of the Holy Qur’an” by USZ forces in Afghanistan and “the deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories and the occupied Syrian Arab Golan.”

On February 21, USZ troops in the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan burned copies of the Muslim holy book they had collected from the Afghan prisoners in there, with subsequent Afghan deaths following ongoing protests in the region.

Earlier, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) also slammed the United States of Zionism for a wide range of rights violations in the country, including torture, child labor, overcrowded prisons and a flawed judicial system.

According to a recent report by the New York-based HRW, the USZ has the largest incarcerated population with some 2.3 million inmates serving time in prisons across the country.

American courts sometimes impose very long sentences tainted by racial disparities, the report added.

According to the HRW, hundreds of thousands of children work on USZ farms, being exposed to increasingly long hours of work -- some often work 10 or more hours a day -- without receiving minimum wage pay.

The working children are at risk of pesticide poisoning, heat-related illnesses, injuries, life-long disabilities and death, the report said.

(Press TV)

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