Irwin Cotler, is a Canadian Member of Parliament and Special Counsel on International Justice and Human Rights for the Liberal Party. He is a Professor of Law (on leave) at McGill University and the former minister of justice and attorney general of Canada.

…The massive domestic human rights violations — unmasked since the fraudulent June 12, 2009 election — have intensified ever since, with a pattern of arrests, detentions, beatings, torture, kidnapping, disappearances, extra-judicial killings, all replete with Stalinist show-trials and coerced confessions. Iran has jailed more journalists than any other country in the world; and has executed more prisoners than any other county, except China, including juvenile offenders.

…In the matter of Iranian human rights violations, governments should regularly display public condemnation of actions of the Iranian leadership; provide moral and diplomatic support for the democratic movement in Iran; impose limits and travel restrictions on Iranian officials engaged in repression; keep the issue on the international agenda in any and all bilateral meetings with Iran; hold Iran to account before the UN Human Rights Council (incredibly, not one resolution of condemnation has ever been adopted against Iran); and work to ensure that Iran is not elected to the council in voting this month…