UN Rights Chief Urges Syria to End Assault on Its Own People

by Gary Kopycinski on June 9, 2011

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–9 June 2011. The United Nations human rights chief today condemned the ongoing violent crackdown by Syrian authorities against peaceful protestors and called on the Government to respond to her repeated requests to allow a fact-finding mission to visit the country.