Mortazavi's appointment: Nightmare of the century
It's unbelievable! Iran has sent the notorious Judge Mortazavi as part of the country's delegate to the Human Rights Council in Geneva! It's like sending a hardcore alcoholic to an anti-alcohol summit!! Iranian Truth, Lady Sun and Archer have posts about this.
By doing so, the Iranian government is showing us people a middle finger, and also testing the waters to see how sensitive the international political scene is to politicians with known dark human rights record. Obviously they are NOT as sensitive as you would expect, or political protocol has so far prevented them from reacting, or, they simply don't know who Mortazavi is!
For those who don't know, Mortazavi ordered the closure of more than 80 reformist newspapers and journals in Iran, and is known to have been directly involved in the death of Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi.
Update: the government of Canada has reacted briefly.
check out Eli's article on the same issue. He is the only American journalist that has covered this story:
http://www.nysun.com/article/34875?page_no=1
The infamous Saeed Mortazavi this week led Iran's delegation in Geneva to the first session of the United Nation's newly reconfigured human rights panel on Monday, even though Iran is not a member of that panel.
A friend of Mr. Ganji's, Mohsen Sazegara yesterday compared the Mullah's decision to send Mr. Mortazavi to Geneva to Germany in 1944 sending the notorious mass murderer Adolf Eichman to a human rights parley.
(at June 22, 2006 07:02 PM)
It is indeed a disaster that Mortazavi has been appointed as part of the iranian envoy to the human rights council. But it is also unrealistic to think that all countries in the world would create a database of Iranian officials and keep their ranking up to date in order to accept/decline every single representative sent by the iranian government to international events. Even the UN (as commented by Unity) would not have such a database, you can't do much unless the person is a criminal recognised by an international judicary body such as The Hague. Even in that case, accepting/rejecting (and arresting) is still not an easy thing as these envoys travel under international diplomatic immunity.
(at June 24, 2006 09:19 PM)
i really feel sorry that why iranian government make a bad picture of iran by this actions
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