Shirin Ebadi is the founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre in Iran and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize. Payam Akhavan is the Human Rights Chair at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, a founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, and a former UN prosecutor at The Hague. He was the civil society representative at the UN Human Rights Council Special Session on Iran on Jan. 23. Imagine a mother and father, sifting among countless black plastic body bags dumped like garbage on the floor of a morgue, and finding one young victim after another...