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...