TEHRAN – Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi chaired the first session of the human rights committee on Thursday.

“The promotion of the human rights committee can yield valuable results the most important of which would be creating harmony in the scientific and theoretical fields,” the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) quoted him as saying.

He also stressed the importance of informing the world of Islamic human rights and called for a common human rights chart to be ratified by the Organization of the Islamic Conference or other apt organizations.

Hashemi Shahrudi noted that the committee should act in a way that would satisfy the expectations of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and the Iranian nation.

Members of the human rights committee include the Attorney General, the Supreme Court chief, the Judiciary’s first deputy chief, the interior, foreign, justice and intelligence ministers, the minister of culture and islamic guidance, and some other state bodies and institutes.