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UN rights chief slams Iran for action against protesters
Gulf Today
|January 24, 2026
The UN rights chief urged Iran on Friday to end its “brutal repression” of protests during an emergency session of the Human Rights Council, where a group of states is calling for UN investigators to document alleged abuses for future trials.
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Rights groups say thousands of people, including bystanders, were killed during the unrest, which they describe as the biggest crackdown since clerics took power in the 1979 revolution.
“I call on the Iranian authorities to reconsider, to pull back, and to end their brutal repression,” High Commissioner Volker Turk told the meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, voicing concerns for those detained in mass arrests.
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