{"id":59896,"date":"2018-02-26T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=59896"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T14:20:46","slug":"07-05-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=59896","title":{"rendered":"Haley slams Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Haley slams Human Rights Council for inviting Iran rights abuser to speak at UN<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

ERIC CORTELLESSA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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With Iranian Justice Minister Alireza Avaie set to address world body this week, US envoy says United Nations needs reforms to be ‘a good investment of our time and money’<\/strong><\/p>\n

photo, United Nations Ambassador for the US Nikki Haley address UN Security Council meeting on Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis, at UN headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo\/Bebeto Matthews, File)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley lashed out at the Human Rights Council on Sunday, saying it should be \u201cashamed\u201d for inviting an Iranian minister notorious for his human rights abuses to address the body\u2019s annual meeting in Geneva this week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran Justice Minister Alireza Avaie\u2019s slated remarks along with some 100 government ministers and other dignitaries from around the world have already elicited outrage from Iranian and international activists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Haley said his appearance bolsters the Trump administration\u2019s criticisms of the UN and threats to cut US aid to the orginization.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Human Rights Council should be ashamed to allow Mr. Avaei to address its membership,\u201d the South Carolina native said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYet again the Council discredits itself by allowing serial human rights abusers to hijack its work and make a mockery of its mandate to promote universal human rights. This does nothing but reinforce the United States\u2019 call for much needed reforms at the Council for it to be viewed as a good investment of our time and money,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Alireza Avaie (Alireza.gharibdoust \/ Wikipedia)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The European Union imposed sanctions on Avaei and other Iranian officials in October 2011 because, as Tehran\u2019s former top prosecutor said, he was \u201cresponsible for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners\u2019 rights, and an increase in executions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Exiled members of the Iranian opposition also said Avaei played a key role in a 1988 massacre of political prisoners. Amnesty International has said that during that episode, nearly 5,000 prisoners were executed in a matter of months; Iranian opposition groups, for their part, put the figure closer to 30,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAllowing Avaie to address the Human Rights Council is disgraceful and would make a mockery of the United Nations and its human rights mechanisms,\u201d Shahin Gobadi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, told AFP earlier this week. \u201cThis must not happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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