UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said Iran is facing a “full-fledged human rights crisis” as authorities put pressure on dissidents opposing the regime. CNN.
Turk called for an “independent, impartial and transparent investigation” of human rights violations in Iran at the special session of the UN Human Rights Council on November 24.
Anti-government protests swept the Islamic Republic after the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who was detained in September by a deputy police officer for allegedly not wearing a proper hijab.
Since then, the authorities have launched a brutal crackdown on the demonstrators, with local media reporting on violent detentions and physical abuse against the country’s Kurdish minority group.
formerly UNHRC accepted Resolution to establish an international mission to investigate human rights abuses during the protests in Iran.
In Iran, it was reported that women and men were detained during the protests. subjected to Sexual violence and torture in local prisons.
Source: Gazeta
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