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FRIENDS OF A FREE IRAN IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS THE PLANNED SPEECH OF IRANIAN REGIME’S JUSTICE MINISTER AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

FRIENDS OF A FREE IRAN IN EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS THE PLANNED SPEECH OF IRANIAN REGIME’S JUSTICE MINISTER AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Created: 26 February 2018 Iran NCRI PMOI/MEK TEHRAN Ahvaz Press release- Brussels- Friends of a Free Iran in European Parliament – 26 February 2018 We have been shocked by the reports that Seyyed Alireza Avaei (a.k.a Avaee), who is currently Minister of “Justice” in the cabinet of President Rouhani, is scheduled to speak before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva tomorrow 27 February 2018.Alireza Avaei is currently on EU’s and Switzerland’s black lists for serious human rights violations. The European Union added him to its sanctions lists in October 2011, stressing that “As President of the Tehran Judiciary he has been responsible for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners’ rights and an increase in executions.” Avaei was previously the Prosecutor-General and member of the “Death Commission” in Khuzestan province, south ...