Protesters rally after Iranian minister addresses UN rights body
General Antonio Guterres voiced concern earlier on Tuesday at the high number of executions in Iran. (Reuters)/ As Iran’s justice minister addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, protesters rallied outside against the senior official who is on European Union and Swiss sanctions lists over alleged involvement in violations including arbitrary arrests and a rise in executions while he was president of the Tehran judiciary. Alireza Avai was a senior judiciary official during the 1980s and the Mujahedin-e Khalq, an Iranian ...
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