Ebrahim Raisi was due to travel to Scotland for the COP26 climate change meeting. But the campaigns to prevent that produced results and in fear of being arrested and put on trial, he cancelled his trip.
A formal request to Chief Constable Iain Livingstone, officer in command of Police Scotland, to mount a criminal investigation under universal jurisdiction into accusations of alleged genocide and crimes against humanity by Ebrahim Raisi was sent by Struan Stevenson, former Scottish MEP and a staunch supporter of the people of Iran in their quest for justice and human rights.
Universal jurisdiction allows a state to claim criminal jurisdiction over an accused person regardless of where the alleged crime was committed and regardless of the accused’s nationality, country or residence.