DO NOT LET THE CRIMINALS INTO INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

By Mahdavi Nasim

For the victims of violence and crimes against humanity are, Tuesday 27 of the February is a bitter and painful day because the Human Rights Council, which is supposed to monitor the human rights situation in the world and defend the rights of the suppressed people, is going to  host One of the worst criminals in the world, the documents of the criminality's participation in genocide and aggression against humanity are publicly available.

It is very disappointing for victims of crimes around the world that the Human Rights Council will host a criminal

To understand more, a look at the background of Alireza Avaei reminds us that the world should not be a safe place for criminals and be welcomed as champions in International and Human Rights Committees.

The task of human rights organizations and crime victims is to push the United Nations and European countries to prevent the criminals to the Human Rights Council.

Alireza Avaee must be arrested for the crime of crimes against humanity, so that all criminals learn from this lesson.

Avaei was a perpetrator of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners and a member of the Death Commission in Khuzestan Province that sent many political prisoners to execution during the massacre. Between 1979 and 1988, he was the General and Revolutionary Prosecutor in Dezful and Ahvaz.

During the 1988 massacre, he was the Prosecutor-General of Dezful and on Khomeini’s order was appointed as a member of the Death Commission in Khuzestan Province, and he was responsible for the execution of many prisoners in Dezful’s UNESCO Prison. According to eye-witnesses, prisoners who were minors were hanged in groups of two or three in a secluded area behind the UNESCO Prison’s courtyard on the orders of Avaei.

Based on the definition of the Rome Statute, the 1988 massacre constitutes a crime against humanity. Following a fatwa by Khomeini, more than 30,000 political prisoners, mostly members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK), were arbitrarily executed in a matter of a few months.

In later years, Avaei was head of the mullahs' department of justice in the provinces of Lorestan, Markazi and Isfahan. He was President of the Judiciary in Tehran Province from 2005 to 2014. Afterwards he became Deputy Interior Minister, and in July 2016 Rouhani appointed him as Head of the Presidency’s Inspectorate Office.

 Avaei’s name was added to the European Union’s sanctions list in October 2011 for human rights abuses and direct participation in the torture and massacre of political prisoners.

While blacklisting Avaei in 2011, the EU stated: “As President of Tehran Judiciary he has been responsible for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, and denials of prisoners’ rights and increase of executions.”

An addressBased on these sanctions, Alireza Avaei will be denied access to the countries of the union and his assets will be confiscated in the European Union.