Family members of torture victims in Iranian prisons have submitted a formal request to Scottish security authorities calling for the arrest of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi if he participates in the upcoming climate summit in Glasgow, according to the British newspaper "Times." Naomi McAuliffe, director of Amnesty International in Scotland, stated that the organization has evidence of Raisi's involvement in torture during 1988 when he was a judicial official.
It is noted that the Iranian president stated in his first press conference after being elected that he "has always defended human rights," while the United States and several Western NGOs hold him responsible for acts of torture, extrajudicial executions, and numerous other violations. Raisi, who served as the head of the judiciary until he assumed the presidency last August, claimed that "everything he did during his years of service was always aimed at defending human rights."
Additionally, the U.S. Treasury Department placed his name on the sanctions list in 2019, accusing him of being a member of the "death committee" in 1988 and of participating in the suppression of the "Green Movement" that opposed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in 2009.
