(Boston Globe) Editorial - There is but one candidate to chair the UN Human Rights Commission for the coming year, and that is Libya. The human rights organization Freedom House has written to the UN ambassadors of countries on the Human Rights Commission, pointing out that ''the United Nations itself has voiced concern over Libya's human rights practices, including extrajudicial and summary executions perpetrated by state agents, arbitrary arrest and long-term detention without trial, systematic use of torture and other ill-treatment or punishment, imposition of the death penalty for 'political and economic offenses,' and numerous restrictions on freedom of expression.'' It should be the responsibility of democracies to unite in preventing Khadafy from making the very notion of a UN Human Rights Commission seem a farce.
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