GENEVA: UN rights experts on Thursday urged Iran to end what they called the escalating arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and arbitrary executions of ethnic minorities. The Kurdish and Baluch minorities are particularly affected, they said in a statement. “Iran’s ethnic minorities must be able to live in safety and dignity, free from discrimination,” the experts said. In late December, a protest movement initially sparked by the high cost of living rapidly evolved into widespread anti-government demonstrations.

UN human rights experts have called on Iran to halt the increasing arbitrary detentions and executions that particularly impact Kurdish and Baluch minorities. Since the outbreak…

Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, has called on Iranian authorities ...