Geoffrey Robertson is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading human rights lawyers, making frequent appearances in the European Court of Human Rights, and has been counsel in many landmark constitutional, criminal and media law cases. In Mullahs Without Mercy Mr Robertson argues that a nuclear armed Iran could trigger a local and possibly global war.
Geoffrey Robertson QC explains how to avoid war in the Middle East and a catastrophic nuclear disaster.
- What is worse: Iran getting the bomb or the US bombing Iran?
- Will our children ever live in a world without nukes?
- Can states that mass-murder their own people be trusted with a weapon that mass-murders?
- Will a nuclear explosion change the climate before climate change does?
In Mullahs Without Mercy, Geoffrey Robertson explores these and other awesome questions that arise from Iran’s potential for acquiring the bomb. The scramble for nuclear weapons by brutal or unstable regimes poses the clearest present danger to the peace and the climate of the world.
This ground-breaking study exposes Iran’s crimes against prisoners and dissidents, perpetrated by the very same mullahs who may soon have their fingers on nuclear triggers. But it argues that the US has no legal right to attack, as Israel – hypocritically hiding its own nuclear arsenal – demands. In this vividly written and authoritative book, one of our highest-profile legal minds shows how the mushroom cloud hovering over the Middle East might yet have a silver lining – forcing the world to reassert the rule of international law, which could lead to the elimination of a weapon with the power to destroy us all.
Geoffrey Robertson launches Mullahs Without Mercy at the Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre on Sunday 16 December 2012 at 4.00PM
Geoffrey Robertson is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading human rights lawyers, making frequent appearances in the European Court of Human Rights, and has been counsel in many landmark constitutional, criminal and media law cases. In Mullahs Without Mercy Mr Robertson argues that a nuclear armed Iran could trigger a local and possibly global war.
Mullahs Without Mercy is Geoffrey Robertson’s latest book, which demonstrates, with chilling examples, why Iran cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. This timely and authoritative book makes clear how international law must be deployed to stop Iran from developing a nuclear strike capability.
A dramatic account of how Iran’s leaders have committed, without compunction, a series of crimes against humanity and a sinister campaign of targeted assassinations, Mullahs Without Mercy makes clear that the perpetrators remain in positions of power and are conspiring to commit a greater crime – the possession and use of nuclear weapons.
Geoffrey Robertson has had a long and celebrated career. In England, he has appeared before Old Bailey juries in some of the most celebrated trials including Oz, Gay News, The ABC Trial, “The Romans in Britain”, the Brighton bombing.
As a UN Appeal judge he has delivered internationally important decisions on the illegality of conscripting child soldiers and the invalidity of amnesties for war crimes.
In 2007 he conducted the groundbreaking indigenous rights case which stopped the National History Museum from experimenting on Aboriginal skulls.
He also appeared on behalf of the New York Times and The Washington Post in the Bin Mohamed case, successfully resisting the Foreign Secretary’s attempt to suppress evidence of CIA torture.
As an author he has written Crimes against Humanity – The Struggle for Global Justice, The Justice Game, which has sold over 100,000 copies, and of Robertson and Nicol on Media Law. He writes and broadcasts regularly on international legal issues and creates Geoffrey Robertson’s Hypotheticals for television and for ethics education. His most recent publication isThe Tyrannicide Brief, rose to second in the non-fiction bestseller list in Australia .
He is the founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the UK’s leading human rights practice, which comprises some 80 barristers and 30 staff. He is a Bencher of the Middle Temple; and a Recorder (part-time judge) in London; an executive Member of Justice, and a trustee of the Capital Cases Trust. He is visiting Professor in Human Rights at Queen Mary College, University of London and lives in London with his wife, author Kathy Lette, and their two children.
Source: Ideas at the House
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