Eritrean refugees play at Mai-Aini Refugee Camp in northern Ethiopia, November 17, 2013. REUTERS/Aaron Maasho
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to set up a year-long inquiry into human rights in Eritrea, similar to previous high-level investigations into Syria, North Korea and Sri Lanka.
It condemned what it said were "widespread and systematic" violations by Eritrea's government, from arbitrary executions to restrictions on religion, detention of journalists and a shoot-to-kill policy for citizens trying to cross the border.
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