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UN rights chief urges Iran to ‘end their brutal repression’ of protesters
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Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks onstage during Global Citizen NOW: Impact Sessions in New York City, September 24, 2025. (ROB KIM / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
GENEVA, Switzerland — The United Nations rights chief decries that “thousands” of people, including children, had died in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, and urges the authorities to “end their brutal repression.”
Speaking at the start of a UN Human Rights Council urgent meeting on the situation in Iran, Volker Turk urges the authorities in Tehran “to reconsider, to pull back, and to end their brutal repression.”
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