GENEVA, March 12, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - The war in the Middle East is likely to result in worsening institutionalised repression of Iranian citizens, UN-mandated investigators probing rights abuses in Iran said Wednesday. Iran's deepening human rights crisis "is likely to worsen in the wake of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran and Iran's retaliatory strikes across the region", the mission said in a statement. The three-person mission is tasked with gathering and preserving evidence of rights violations in Iran. "The human rights situation in Iran has been severely exacerbated by the US-Israeli air strikes since February 28," the report said. It also found that "many gross human rights violations by Iran amount to the crimes against humanity of murder, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, gender persecution, enforced disappearance and other inhumane acts".

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha March 12, 2026 03:14 UTC