Thread by @HillelNeuer

BREAKING: The U.N. on October 8th is planning to elect by acclamation an official rep of the Islamic Regime of Iran to its U.N. Human Rights Council advisory committee.

We are calling on @antonioguterres, @volker_turk, and all member states to denounce and oppose this travesty.

2/ Electing any rep of the murderous IRGC regime to a UN human rights body is a travesty.

Here, it's even worse. Under UNHRC Res. 6/102, candidates must have high moral standing, Independence, and impartiality.

Afsaneh Nadipour is an enemy of human rights. Consider: 🧵

3/ Iran's UNHRC candidate Afsaneh Nadipour is an enemy of women's rights. During the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, she defended the murderous regime. She said support for the courageous women protesters was “disingenuous and politically motivated.”
tehrantimes.com/news/480477/Ir…

4/ As Iranian ambassador, Denmark summoned Afsaneh Nadipour after her embassy pressured Iranian women living there to accept divorce terms drawn up by Mosque Imams. If a woman remarried, she would lose custody of her children.

Enemy of women's rights. en.radiofarda.com/a/tehran-ambas…

5/ During the time Iran's UNHRC candidate Afsaneh Nadipour served the regime in The Netherlands, they murdered two dissidents there: Ali Motamed in 2015, and two years later, Ahmad Mola Nissi.
theguardian.com/world/2019/jan…

6/ MP @UlysseEllian addressed the same UN Human Rights Council. Citing these two murders, he urged the UN to “expose Iran’s strategy of hiring assassins to strike fear into anyone who dares to oppose them.” Now they're going to elect an IRGC accomplice.

https://x.com/HillelNeuer/status/1935375183881322814

@UlysseEllian 7/ But she is representing the regime. Electing the Islamic Republic of Iran to protect women’s rights is like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank. It sends a message that the UN has contempt for women’s rights victims worldwide. It's a dark day for human rights.

@UlysseEllian 8/ Beyond the symbolism, electing an IRGC rep only further undermines the world's top human rights body.

Advisory Committee members provide human rights expertise to the Council, which is supposed to help victims.

And Afsaneh Nadipour is an enemy of human rights.

9/ Check out her CV: Afsaneh Nadipour has served the murderous regime for 33 years — including as an assistant to Minister of Propaganda Javad Zarif.

Afsaneh Nadipour served a regime that commits gross and systematic persecution of women, in both law and in practice.

Afsaneh Nadipour served Iran’s fundamentalist mullahs who force women to cover their hair, with many arrested and attacked daily under the misogynistic hijab law.

Afsaneh Nadipour served a regime that requires a woman to receive permission from her father to get married. The legal age for a girl to marry in Iran is 13—with even younger girls allowed to marry with paternal and judicial consent.

Afsaneh Nadipour served Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime which imprisons courageous women’s rights activists for the crime of peacefully demanding their human dignity.

Why, then, is the UN electing one of the world’s worst oppressors of women as a world judge on human rights?