Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Press Release: UN Must Immediately Withdraw Invitation to Iranian Justice Minister

The Iranian Justice Minister is a known perpetrator of the 1988 massacre of 30.000 political prisoners, one of the greatest unanswered crimes in Iran’s modern history

The British Committee for Iran Freedom is shocked over the reports of Iranian Justice Minister Ali-reza Avaee’s plan to visit the United Nations headquarters in Geneva to address the UN Human Rights Council next week.
The Iranian Justice Minister is a known perpetrator of the 1988 massacre of 30.000 political prisoners, one of the greatest unanswered crimes in Iran’s modern history. He was added to the EU and UK sanction’s list in 2011, and again in April last year, for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners’ rights and an increase of execution, as President of Tehran Judiciary.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, the late Ms. Asma Jahangir, documented this massacre in her latest report and said “Between July 
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/human-rights/24394-press-release-un-must-immediately-withdraw-invitation-to-iranian-justice-minister

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