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UN Rights Investigator Highly Critical of Iran
(New York Times) Rick Gladstone - Ahmed Shaheed, a former Maldives foreign minister and an expert on human rights in Muslim-majority countries who is the special UN investigator of human rights in Iran, presented a highly critical report on Tuesday that described a record rate of executions, a deeply flawed judiciary, and repression of journalists, dissidents, women and freedom of expression. It was Shaheed's fifth report on Iran since he was appointed in 2011, and his first since the completion of a nuclear agreement in July between Iran and the major world powers.