Volker Turk
speaker
12 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Jan
Volker Turk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The UN's top human rights official Volker Turk says the killing on the streets of Iran may have subsided, but as he puts it, the brutality continues.
He said he's alarmed by the mixed messages coming from Iran about their fate.
President Trump has said that Iran promised him that they would not execute prisoners, but senior Iranian judicial authorities say otherwise.
Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
It's NPR News.
This is the first time a UN rights chief has used the term apartheid to describe the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
He added that every aspect of life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
was controlled and curtailed by what he described as Israel's discriminatory laws, policies and practices.
This latest UN report said Israel treats settlers and Palestinians under two distinct bodies of laws and policies.
The report also says that Palestinians continue to be subjected to large-scale confiscation of land.
The UN said settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank had reached its highest level since 2017.
The most recent decision by Israel to approve the recognition of 19 new settlements has brought the total number of settlement approvals over the past three years to 69.
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