
UN Urges Iran To Free Detained Peaceful Protesters, Fault Increase Harshness
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.N. human rights office is calling on Iran’s government to immediately release thousands of people who have been detained for participating in peaceful protests, faulting its “increasing harshness” as Western countries seek to ratchet up scrutiny of Tehran’s crackdown against demonstrators. Spokesman Jeremy Laurence of the office of the U.N. High…