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Côte d’Ivoire: UN Substantiates Reports of Killings, Torture, Arrests and Disappearances

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–23 December 2010 – Human rights officers in Côte d’Ivoire have substantiated allegations of more than 170 killings, hundreds of arrests and dozens of cases of torture, ill treatment and enforced disappearance of people over the past one week, a senior United Nations rights official said today.

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