NCRI – The following is a statement issued by the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on June 21, 2006:
Jamal Karimi-Rad, the clerical regime’s Minister of Justice has attended at the current session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, according to state-run news agency IRNA.
In his 25-year career as a ruthless judge, Karimi-Rad was assistant prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court, Prosecutor General and the General Prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court for Kurdistan, Zanjan and Qazvin provinces respectively, as well as the prosecutor of the Judges’ Disciplinary Commission. He has held key senior positions in the campaign to crackdown on the Iranian people, including thousands of executions especially of political prisoners.
He was instrumental in suppressing the women’s demonstration held on June 12, 2006, in the Tehran’s Rezais Square, in which more than 400 people were arrested and taken to the medieval regime’s dungeons.
Karimi-Rad made every effort to save Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s Prosecutor General, from indictment by banning the release of confessions made by tortured bloggers in public.
The Iranian Resistance reiterates that Karimi-Rad’s presence in the highest human rights body would discredit the body and calls on the UN’s Human Rights Council to expel him. It also demands that Swiss authorities arrest and hand Karimi-Rad over to the International Court of Justice.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 21, 2006
