Judiciary chief Larijani refutes as ‘lies’ report of UN special human rights rapporteur

Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani said on Thursday that the recent report issued by the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Iran is full of lies.

Larijani made the remark in an expert meeting on Human Rights, Islam and West in Tehran on Thursday.

The rapporteur had already issues false reports on the status of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, he said.

It is amazing that a rapporteur who is responsible for observing international legal rights has expressed such biased reports about Iran, he said.

It is astonishing that in the West anyone denying the Holocaust is sent to jail but if one insults holy prophets, there is nothing wrong with it, he said.

Torture has been banned in the Human Rights Declaration but the Americans have tortured prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib jails, Larijani said.

There are numerous cases of human rights violations by western countries, the Judiciay chief said.

They invaded Iraq under pretext of weapons of mass destruction and massacred hundred of thousands of innocent civilians there but no one has ever asked them under what principles of human rights they occupied the country, he said.

The Islamic Republic of Iran, established under the leadership of late Imam Khomeini, is the most democratic country in the region, he said.