Sudan must end repression and let monitors in, says U.N. rights boss


  • World
  • Monday, 24 Jun 2019

FILE PHOTO: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a meeting at the chancellery in Caracas, Venezuela June 20, 2019. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero

GENEVA (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities must let in human rights monitors, end repression of protesters and restore the internet connection, U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet said on Monday.

Her office had received reports that more than 100 protesters were killed and many more injured when security forces raided a peaceful sit-in outside the defence ministry in Khartoum on June 3, she said.

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