UN Human Rights Council elects as its VP Mauritania, where it's legal to own slaves and illegal to leave Islam

CNS News adds: "Ruled by a former military coup leader, Mauritania is a North African Islamic state where conversion to another faith is punishable by death. The country’s criminal code provides for a three-day period of reflection and repentance for any Muslim found guilty of apostasy. 'If he does not repent within this time limit,' it states, 'he is to be condemned to death as an apostate and his property will be confiscated by the Treasury.'"

Both slavery and the death penalty for apostasy are prescribed by Islamic law, so it is no surprise that an Islamic state would have both. But that such a state should be elected to the UN Human Rights Council just show how compromised are the clowns who run the UN.
"Human Rights Day Marred by Election of Slave-holding Mauritania as VP of UN Human Rights Council," from UN Watch, December 10 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

GENEVA, Dec. 10 – UN Watch condemned today's election of Mauritania, a country that allows 800,000 of its citizens to live as slaves, as Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council. In addition, the Geneva-based group also announced the failure of its yearlong campaign, with 55 MPs and NGOs, to get UNESCO to remove Syria from its human rights committee.
1. Mauritania Elected Today as VP of UN Human Rights Council
The UN Human Rights Council met today in Geneva and elected Mauritania as its Vice-President and Rapporteur for the next year, the second highest position at the world's top human rights body.
"It is obscene for the U.N. to use the occasion of Human Rights Day, when we commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to elect the world's worst enabler of slavery to this prestigious post," said Hillel Neuer, UN Watch executive director.
"The U.N. is making an arsonist head of the fire department. It defies both morality and common sense."
According to a recent report by the Guardian, "up to 800,000 people in a nation of 3.5 million remain chattels," with power and wealth overwhelmingly concentrated among lighter-skinned Moors, "leaving slave-descended darker-skinned Moors and black Africans on the edges of society."...