Sanaa: The National Human Rights Authority expressed deep regret over the outcomes of the emergency session held by the United Nations Human Rights Council on January 23 regarding the situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to Yemen News Agency, the Authority noted that the emergency session reflected a selective rush to activate investigation and accountability mechanisms, contrasted with a troubling silence and deliberate disregard for acts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity being committed in full view of the world in the Gaza Strip, and for more than ten years in Yemen.
The Authority affirmed its principled rejection of all human rights violations wherever they occur, explaining that the situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran no longer falls within the framework of peaceful protests protected by international law, but has, according to documented and public information, turned into organized violence, terrorist attacks, destruction of public and private property, and armed operations targeting civilians and law enforcement forces.
The statement stressed that any responsible human rights assessment must clearly distinguish between the legitimate right to peaceful expression and terrorist or sabotage acts that threaten societal security and endanger civilian lives.
The Authority considered the Council's conduct a reflection of blatant double standards and systematic political hypocrisy, transforming the international human rights system into a selective tool used out of its true context as a pretext to justify external interventions or political escalation, while completely overlooking documented crimes of genocide, aggression, and blockade in Gaza and Yemen without any serious accountability.
It emphasized that what the Yemeni people have endured for ten years-due to American, British, Saudi, and Emirati aggression and blockade-resulting in widespread civilian killings, destruction of infrastructure, and systematic starvation, represents one of the most dangerous cases of impunity in modern history, amid the Human Rights Council's failure to take any serious or proportionate action commensurate with the scale of these crimes.
The Authority stated that the genocide in Gaza constitutes a stark moral test for the international community, as mass killings of civilians are committed and siege and starvation are used as weapons of war without real accountability or deterrent measures.
It held the Human Rights Council, the states supporting the aggression against Yemen, and the states obstructing accountability regarding Gaza morally and legally responsible for the continuation of these crimes and the entrenchment of impunity.
The statement called for ending the policy of double standards in the work of the Human Rights Council, opening genuine accountability pathways for genocide crimes in Gaza, reactivating international investigation mechanisms into crimes of aggression and blockade against Yemen, and the immediate and unconditional lifting of the siege on Yemen and Gaza.