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Shuttered for what appears to be one of the country's largest general strikes in decades. i spoke earlier about the situation and around with human rights attorney and the director of the strategic's litigation project for the atlantic council -- thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with this troubling news from iran this week. iran executing its first prisoner, allegedly convicted of a crime committed during the protests. what is your understanding of what happened and your reaction to this disturbing news? >> well, the disturbing thing is that this is only going to be the first ...

I spoke earlier about the situation and around with human rights attorney and the director of the strategic's litigation project for the atlantic council -- thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with this troubling news from iran this week. iran executing its first prisoner, allegedly convicted of a crime committed during the protests. what is your understanding of what happened and your reaction to this disturbing news? >> well, the disturbing thing is that this is only going to be the first of what will be, it looks like, more than a dozen executions or more. because there are a ...

We can now speak to gissou nia, a human rights lawyer and the director of the strategic litigation project at the atlantic council. a very warm welcome to the bbc and thank you forjoining us so we have seen from sarah's report there so many other details of alleged war crimes. how significant do you think it is that the human rights council is adopting resolutions for investigations into possible war crimes, and i think for a lot of people watching this, they have probably heard some statements like this previously but really wondering what difference will it make on the ground? yes. wondering...

A question i put to gissou nia, a human rights lawyer and the director of the strategic litigation project at the atlantic council. yes, so this is very significant. what i see with the resolution that was adopted at the special session of the un human rights council today is that there is a real effort by the council to put a lens on accountability. there is language in the resolution calling to account for, you know, who is actually perpetrating these violations, and that's something that we don't always see with content from the human rights council, with its enquiries. there are different ...

Greenberg Traurig, LLP and Mobilization for Justice (MFJ) honor Alan Mansfield one year after his passing by announcing that MFJ has awarded the inaugural Alan Mansfield Racial Justice Fellowship to Belinda Luu, who will work with MFJ’s Special Litigation Project (SLP).