UN Human Rights Council launches Iran probe

The UN Human Rights Council has launched an urgent investigation following the repression of demonstrations in Iran. On Friday in Geneva, it also strongly deplored the violence and called on the Iranian authorities to prevent extrajudicial executions. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In a resolution approved by 25 votes to 7, with 14 abstentions, it extended the International Fact-Finding Mission for a further two years. The Mission is due to report back in September. The text "strongly deplores" the violent repression. It calls on the authorities to stop intimidating the victims and to fully restore the Internet. It urges them to prevent extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, sexual violence and arbitrary detentions and arrests. As well as torture and other abuses. Earlier, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk had called for independent investigations, as had Switzerland. He had targeted "aggressive rhetoric and threats" against ...