UN Secretary General Mr. Kufi Annan

 Zurich, June 20. 2006

Very regretfully, by the latest we have heard a very shocking news that we hoped it is not true.

We are informed, the most violator to the Human Rights in Iran; judge Saeed Mortazavi the Tehran notorious prosecutor general, in accompany with Jamal Karimi-rad the minister of justice (the main apparatus of  injustice and infringement of human rights in Iran) are invited to inaugural ceremony of the new UNHR council.

 Both are representing the extrajudicial system in Iran and Saeed Mortazavi  responsible for numerous imprisonments, tortures, and executions in Iran is going to represent the Islamic Regime in the first session of the newly formed UN Human Rights Council.

Saeed Mortazavi is the mass exterminator of Iranian press and alleged killer of Zahra kazemi the Iranian-Canadian photo-journalist, who went to Iran to make briefing about the Students uprising in Iran and was eye-witness to peacefully demonstration of students and freedom loving  which came to a bloody crackdown two years ago. She was brutally tortured to death directly by Saeed Motrazavi and she was raped. Zahra Kazemi was one of those 120 000 political/conscience prisoners who have been treated in the same manners during 27 years by Khomeini regime.

Saeed Mortazavi has spearheaded the judiciary’s attack on press freedoms since the crackdown began in 2000. He is responsible for the closure of numerous newspapers, as well as the arrests and prosecution of journalists, which is detailed in the recent Human Right Watch report on Iran. Based on this report, after testifying to a presidential commission about their torture during detention, a group of Iranian journalists received death threats from Tehran chief prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi. The journalists’ testimonies exposed Mortazavi’s role in authorizing their torture to extract confessions and in compelling them to appear on television to deny their mistreatment while under detention.  

His apperaance in Human Rights Council is not only degrading the values of dignity of HRs but smears the HRs council reputation and lead to tarnishing hopes and aspiration for future of this new organization.

Please be informed, it is a mockery of human rights if the chief prosecutor of a terrorist regime is allowed to sit on the human rights concil.

Nearly 70 millions of Iranian appreciate your immediate measure should be taken in this regards to stop this impudence and bring this murder to justice.

Those who are struggling for human rights, thank you.

Dr. Zahra Erfani