Iran accused of widespread torture in 2019 protests

The World

A crackdown on peaceful demonstrations across Iran last year ended with hundreds of deaths, thousands of arrests, and what a new report from Amnesty International calls “a catalog of shocking human rights violations.” Host Carol Hills speaks with Iran researcher Mansoureh Mills, who helped publish the report.

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