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Pakistani professor picked by UN to investigate Iran protests crackdown |
2022-12-23 |
[DAILYTIMES.PK] On Tuesday, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... named three women to lead a rights investigation into Iran’s The fact-finding mission will be led by Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain, Pak law professor Shaheen Sardar Ali, and Argentine rights activist Viviana Krsticevic, according to UN Human Rights Council head Federico Villegas. The investigation will be led by Hossain, a long-time human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... activist, according to the council presidency. Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate is highly unlikely to allow the trio to enter the country and carry out their mission, with Tehran fiercely opposing the creation of the international investigation that 47 rights council members voted for last month. The three women will document the Iranian authorities’ repression of the protests and potential human rights violations with a view to possible legal action against officials in Iran or elsewhere. Mass protests have swept across the country since September, following the death in jug of Iranian-Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, resulting in The 22-year-old was arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly breaking strict rules about correctly wearing the Islamic headscarf, sparking nationwide protests in support of women’s rights. Authorities have executed some protesters and sentenced others to death for their roles in what they call riots instigated by arch-foes Israel and the United States. Human rights organizations say legal procedures have been rushed and confessions obtained under torture. The United Nations estimates that around 14,000 people have been arrested since mid-September, while Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights says 469 protesters have been killed. WHO IS SHAHEEN SARDAR ALI? Shaheen is a law professor at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom who specializes in Islamic law, human rights, and the rights of women and kiddies. In Pakistain, she was the First Chairperson/Minister of State, National Commission on the Status of Women (2000-2001), and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government’s first female cabinet Minister for Health, Population Welfare, and Women’s Development. She served as a member and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention from 2008 to 2014, and she has advised numerous national and international organizations. Shaheen has a Ph.D. in International Law, from the University of Hull, United Kingdom (1998), and is a member of the editorial boards of the Arab Law Quarterly and the Journal of Islamic State ![]() Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... practices in International Law. She is fluent in English, Urdu, Pashto, and Punjabi can read and write Arabic, and has a working knowledge of Persian (Farsi). |
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