GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) — The United Nations rights body condemned Iran on Friday for rights abuses and mandated an investigation into a recent crackdown on anti-government protests that killed thousands of people. “I call on the Iranian authorities to reconsider, to pull back, and to end their brutal repression,” High Commissioner Volker Turk told an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, voicing concerns for detainees. Turk highlighted some of the atrocities and continuing repression. “We have indications that the security forces made mass arrests in several cities, even pursuing injured people into hospitals, and detaining lawyers,...
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