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Article: U.N. rapporteur says he got many complaints on violation of human rights in Iran
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- November 10, 2003
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ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-10-2003
Dateline: TEHRAN, Iran
A visiting U.N. human rights official said Monday he has obtained "many complaints" of human rights violations from pro-reform dissidents, writers and activists he has met in Iran, a country dominated by unelected, Islamic hard-line clerics.
Ambeyi Ligabo, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, said he found Iran's human rights situation "quite complex."
"The people I met had many different complaints" including torture, Ligabo told Iranian and foreign reporters at the end of his seven-day visit to Iran. He is expected to leave Tehran later ...