Iran judge that jailed 200reporters, took part in rape/murder on UN human rights cmte

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So this guy sends reporters to jail, shuts down news papers, and takes part in the rape and murder of a Canadian reporter, is now going to be sitting on the UN human rights counsel. Cant make a WTF expressive enough to explain the WTF that I feel.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_En...12606109&par=0

Geneva, 20 June (AKI) - Saiid Mortazavi, a judge who has ordered in the past six years the closure of over 200 papers and jailed about 100 journalists will attend the first session of the newly formed United Nations Human Rights Council, running until 30 June in Geneva, as the number two of the Iranian delegation. The delegation is led by Iranian justice minister Jamal Karimi Rad.

The judge is also suspected of a role in the death in July 2003 of a Canadian photoreporter of Iranian origin, Zahra Kazemi. Kazemi was taken to hospital three days after her arrest with a fractured skull. One of the doctors who treated her and signed the journalist's death certificate said she had been savagely beaten and raped.

Mortazavi was present when the journalist, who was arrested for taking pictures at a students' rally, was being questioned. Unofficial reports claim he was among those who beat her.

The presence of the magistrate in Geneva has sparked the anger of Iranian journalists and protests by international rights groups.

"The presence of Saiid Mortazavi, one of the greatest enemies of freedom of the press in the world, at an international conference on human rights is unbearable," Reza Moini, who supervises the situation in Iran on behalf of media rights group Reporter sans Frontier told Adnkronos International (AKI).

Mashaollah Shamsolvaezin, the deputy president of the union of Iranian journalists, also defined the judge's presence in Geneva as "disrespect of the Islamic Republic towards the international community."

"The presence of a magistrate suspected of involvement in the murder of a journalist is not only unacceptable but must be considered a challenge by the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the United Nations and must therefore not be underestimated nor tolerated," Shamsolvaezin told AKI.

The UN's new Human Rights Council, which aims to protect rights worldwide, is replacing a now defunct commission on human rights accused of allowing nations that consistently violated human rights to serve as members and escape scrutiny.