The Greens' Golriz Ghahraman is one of the brightest new faces in a more youthful Parliament. She came with a glowing resume on the Greens' website that read: "Her studies at Oxford, and work as a lawyer for the United Nations and in New Zealand, have focused on enforcing human rights and holding Governments to account. Golriz has lived and worked in Africa, The Hague and Cambodia putting on trial world leaders for abusing their power ..."
The website does not say that now. The second sentence has been replaced with: "Golriz worked for United Nations tribunals as part of both defence (Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia) and prosecution (Cambodia) teams."
There is, of course, nothing wrong with defending anyone accused of a crime in a court of law, though that is not the view of Phil Quin, a former adviser to Labour Governments, who drew attention to the nature of Ghahraman's work in the Rwanda case.
"Any MP who acted as a voluntary intern to defend war criminals, and authors papers that deny the Rwanda genocide, must resign," said Quin, who has worked in Rwanda.
Ghahraman worked on the defence team for Joseph Nzirorera, who died before he could be convicted of genocide in Rwanda. She was also on the defence team for the Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic, who was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.