UN rights investigator decries Iran clampdown, torture, floggings
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Iran has arrested activists and political opponents in a clampdown on freedom of expression as use of torture continues despite promises of reform, a United Nations report said on Monday.
The report was compiled by Asma Jahangir, a Pakistani lawyer serving as UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran who died suddenly last month. Her report to the UN Human Rights Council was finalised, although diplomats said Tehran had tried to block its publication.
More than 20 people were killed and 450 people arrested in nationwide street protests in December against economic hardship and corruption—the biggest in Iran since the post-election unrest of 2009.
