UN says French activist faced threats for cooperating with it

FILE PHOTO: Assa Traore, sister of Adama Traore, a 24-year-old black Frenchman who died in a 2016 police operation, poses during an interview with Reuters in Beaumont-sur-Oise, near Paris, June 7, 2020. REUTERS/Lucien Libert/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - French human rights activist Assa Traoré, the sister of a victim of police brutality, faced threats after she cooperated with a United Nations committee working on racial discrimination, according to a U.N. report published on Tuesday.

Traoré's brother Adama died in police custody in 2016, prompting street protests and calls to address what rights groups say is the issue of brutality and racism within the French police force. The case against the officers involved was dismissed earlier this month.