Iran-Human Rights-Judiciary

 April 10, IRNA

Various aspects of human rights are properly observed and respected in Iran despite biased propaganda of enemies, Judiciary Chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, said in Qatar on Wednesday.

"The world arrogance is always trying to portrait Iran as a country that violates principles of human rights," the ayatollah told reporters in that Arab state of the Persian Gulf region.

Ayatollah Shahroudi arrived in Doha on Tuesday on a three-day official visit.

"Different aspects of human rights, those of the women, children and even the offenders, are respected in Iran more than many other world states," he said.

He invited representatives of foreign mass media to visit Iran to become closely familiar with the country's realities in the field of human rights based on Islamic values.

Shahroudi said that efforts made by enemies to portrait Iran as a country with poor records of human rights respect, were part of a greater plan against the world of Islam and in line with their efforts to insult Muslims' sanctities.