FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO THE UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS WEIGHS IN ON RAISI APPOINTMENT
Ambassador Kenneth Blackwell (Second Left) speaking at NCRI’s news brief on the situation of human rights in Iran-Washington Press Ken Blackwell, the former US ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, wrote an op-ed for conservative news site Townhall. The human rights expert weighed in on the Iranian regime’s appointment of Ebrahim Raisi as the head of the Iranian judiciary. He called Raisi , “one of the most brutal figures of modern history of Iranian jurisprudence.” https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1104970245515759616 Raisi was involved in the systematic execution of more than 30,000 members of the Iranian opposition in 1988. His ascent to the head of the judiciary illustrates the regime’s intent to further attack, maim, and kill members of the Iranian resistance and the People’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK) . The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) , the umbrella coalition which includes the MEK, denounced th...