A U.N. expert tasked with investigating alleged human rights...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
abuses in Iran will talk to Iranian activists in La Belle France, Germany and Belgium this week after a request to visit the country itself was refused.
United Nations
...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas...
Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed will meet Iranians living in the three countries during a fact-finding mission from November 30 to December 8.
"A visit to the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Iran would have allowed me to gain better understanding of the situation," Shaheed said in a statement.
"However I will now study a wide range of human rights issues by meeting activists within the Iranian diaspora, alleged victims of human rights violations, intergovernmental and civil society organizations," he said.
The former Maldives foreign minister, appointed Special Rapporteur in June, will report back to the Human Rights Council in March next year.