11/24/2022
RawNews1st – Security forces have arrested popular football player Voria Ghafouri on charge of “insulting and undermining the Iranian national football team and propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
Ghafouri has been outspoken in supporting protesters, esp. people of Kurdistan.
Additional information: United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Turk warned on Thursday Iran is, “in a full-fledged human rights crisis.”
He was speaking at a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on what it called “the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran” in Geneva.
Turk demanded an end to the “unneccessary” use of force against protesters in Iran.
“From what we could gather, around 14,000 people, including children, have so far been arrested in the context of the protests. This is a staggering number,” he said, adding: “The unnecessary and disproportionate use of force must come to an end.
The old methods and the fortress mentality of those who wield power simply don’t work.”
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