(Followup to this blog entry from earlier today, “UN’s “Human Rights Council” set to start attacking the U.S. today” ).
PTBC’er “Frogg” started article in the New York Sun today. In it, the article describes how Canada’s Conservative Foreign Affairs Minister, Peter MacKay, is making as big a fuss as he can about the fact that at UN’s first meeting of the new “UN Human Rights Council”, or as I like to call it, the “UN Human Rights Council Hahahahahaha”, Iran sent a man to lead their delegation who is known to be complicit in the death if the Canadian reporter, Zahra Kazemi, who was killed in Iran. (See some past entries by me about that story here and here).
Mr. [Saeed] Mortazavi is accused by the Canadian government of playing a role in the rape and murder of a woman journalist and photographer, is credited with closing more than 100 newspapers, and was responsible not only for jailing the students who led the July 9, 1999, pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran but of clearing the security officials accused of torturing them.
[…] The Canadian foreign minister, Peter MacKay, minced no words yesterday, saying his nation was “disgusted” that Mr. Mortazavi would show his face in Geneva, and that the decision to include him in Iran’s delegation to the human rights council “demonstrates the Government of Iran’s complete contempt for internationally recognized principles of human rights.”
He went even further, noting that the information Ottawa has compiled on Mr. Mortazavi’s role in the murder of Kazemi was being shared with the government of Switzerland, hinting that Canada may be rallying support not only for international isolation of the Iranian judge but possibly for his arrest by Swiss authorities.
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