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Ahmed Shaheed

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Ahmed Shaheed is the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. He is also deputy director of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre. A career diplomat, he previously served as UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran and has twice held the office of minister of foreign affairs of Maldives.

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