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UN human rights chief Volker Türk called on Thursday for an independent investigation into ongoing deadly violence against protesters in Iran, where security forces have used “live ammunition, birdshot and other metal pellets, teargas and batons”, he told the Human Rights Council in Geneva. UNTV CH

Executions for drug-related offences have resumed in Saudi Arabia, UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell told the biweekly press briefing in Geneva. UNTV CH

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk says “the rising number of deaths from protests in Iran, including those of two children at the weekend, and the hardening of the response by security forces, underline the critical situation in the country”, according to a UN Human Rights spokesperson. UNTV CH

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk travelled to El Fasher, in northern Darfur, where he met representatives of internally displaced people and other civil society organizations. OHCHR

The head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, told reporters in Geneva that over the past several months, they had interviewed 159 prisoners of war whom the Russian Federation held, and 175 prisoners of war held by Ukraine. UNTV CH

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) has called today to immediately release thousands of protesters who have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty while exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of expression, and to stop using the death penalty as a tool to squash protests. UNTV CH

UN Human Rights spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told reporters in Geneva that “a number of de facto security officials” had disrupted a press conference by a women’s civil society organisation in Afghanistan “arresting one woman, Zarifa Yaqobi, and four of her male colleagues.” UNTV CH

On the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk paid tribute to journalists, who are often at risk of being attacked, intimidated, or imprisoned. Over the last 10 years, some 557 journalists have been killed while doing their work. Over 1,000 have been imprisoned, and 64 are still missing. OHCHR

Le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme, Volker Türk, a appelé aujourd'hui à une désescalade urgente, en République démocratique du Congo où plus d'une dizaine de civils ont été tués, au moins 40 autres blessés et plus de 90,000 personnes déplacées lors de la reprise des combats entre les forces armées congolaises et le groupe armé du Mouvement du 23 mars. OHCHR

Briefing journalists today in New York, Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said, “in the last two years, there's been a global consensus that everyone must transform their system, and the food crisis is only getting worse.” UNIFEED