Religious freedom group asks for UN inquiry into Iran's crackdown
The US Commission for International Religious Freedom called on the Biden administration Friday to establish a commission of inquiry at the United Nations to examine Iran’s brutal suppression of protests.
A wave of demonstrations described as a widespread rebellion have spread across Iran following the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Iranian woman died in the custody of the morality police after she was arrested on charges of not obeying the hijab law that requires women to cover their heads.
But the commission was particularly concerned with the deaths of Sunni worshippers at the hands of the Iranian security forces on September 30. (Iran is a majority Shiite nation, and Sunni Muslims are a religious minority.)
