Ms. Radhya Ashur, spokeswoman for the Representative of the UN Secretary General, told al-Baghdadia TV that: “Broadcasting Ad Melkert’s speech was accompanied by fabricated translation which led people to believe that the UN Secretary General’s Representative is praising Iraqi government’s record in human rights.”
Following al-Maliki’s first scandal when a women’s rights activist protested his human rights record, this is the second time that al-Maliki is publicly humiliated in the course of Human Rights Conference at the Iraq’s Parliament.
Previously, during the Human Rights Conference in Iraq’s Parliament, when al-Maliki insulted human rights activists and demonstrators in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, he was confronted with strong objections by Ms. Adour, a women’s’ rights activist. Carrying pictures of those arrested in the Baghdad demonstrations, she walked towards al-Maliki and screamed: “Are we criminals because we held peaceful demonstrations?”