IHe is Tehran’s pet peeve. UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman has not been able to set foot in the Islamic Republic since his appointment in July 2018 due to a mandate deemed “political” by Tehran. This does not prevent this professor of international and Islamic law at Brunel University in London, reappointed in April, from regularly pointing out the worsening state repression in Iran.
In a press release published on June 15, this independent expert mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, is “alarmed” along with other colleagues of the “violent repression” in Iran, while demonstrations against the high cost of living were put down in blood and that dozens of teachers, leaders…
