IRANIAN DEATH JUDGE TO SIT ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Iranian Death Judge Lands Seat on UN Human Rights Council - Eli Lake (New York Sun)
Saeed Mortazavi, the leader of Iran's delegation to the UN Human Rights Council this week, is one of Iran's most notorious censors and prosecutors of dissidents. Mortazavi is accused by the Canadian government of playing a role in the rape and murder of a woman journalist, is credited with closing more than 100 newspapers, and was responsible not only for jailing the students who led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tehran in 1999 but of clearing the security officials accused of torturing them. Human rights groups, Iranian oppositionists, and the Canadian government have expressed outrage at Mortazavi's presence in Geneva.