Blacklisted Iranian Official Stirs Outrage at U.N. Human Rights Council 2/28/2018 8:55:19 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print A speech by Seyyed Alireza Avaei, Iran’s minister of justice, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday caused an uproar because of his role in human rights violations. GENEVA, New York Times, Feb. 27, 2018  — He was a prosecutor of Iran’s Islamic revolution and acquired a notorious reputation for the arbitrary executions of thousands of opponents. A few decades later he oversaw the judiciary’s 2009 trials of anti-government protesters and was denounced overseas, not least by the  United Nations  . But on Tuesday the former prosecutor, Alireza Avaei, now Iran’s minister of justice, appeared at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, one of nearly 100 ministers and dignitaries to speak at the start of its main session this year. The reaction inside and outside the council was outrag...

Nikki Haley: The Human Rights Council should be ashamed to allow Avaei to address its membership 2/26/2018 5:46:26 AM Ambassador Haley on Iran Human Rights Violator Speaking at UN Human Rights Council Press Release: Ambassador Haley on Iran Human Rights Violator Speaking at UN Human Rights Council February 25, 2018 This week, Iran’s Minister of Justice, Seyyed Alireza Avaei, is set to address the UN Human Rights Council. Mr. Avaei is responsible for some of the worst human rights violations in Iran, including preventing political freedoms and promoting repression, violence, and extrajudicial killings of political prisoners. “The Human Rights Council should be ashamed to allow Mr. Avaei to address its membership. Yet again the Council discredits itself by allowing serial human rights abusers to highjack its work and make a mockery of its mandate to promote universal human rights. This does nothing but reinforce the United States’ call for much needed reforms...