Washington, DC – Last Tuesday, the United States Senate passed a resolution, “Condemning the Government of Iran for restricting and suppressing freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly, and for its human rights abuses, and for other purposes.” The bipartisan resolution, S. Res. 386, was sponsored by Senators Kaufman (D-DE), Lieberman (I-CT), McCain (R-AZ), Dodd (D-CT), Kyl (R-AZ), Casey (D-PA), Graham (R-SC), Levin (D-MI), and Brownback (R-KS), and passed by unanimous consent.
The resolution condemned the various human rights abuses committed by the Iranian Government, and also praised the State Department’s recent decision to allow the provision of free mass market software for use by the Iranian people to communicate and share information online.
