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UN: Iran Committed Human Rights Violations in Downing of Ukraine Airliner
(UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) Agnes Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said Iran committed multiple human rights violations in shooting down a Ukraine airliner on Jan. 8, 2020, in an official letter to Iran published on Feb. 23, 2021. "The explanations provided by the Iranian authorities as to how the IRGC [air defense] TOR unit struck the civilian flight present many inconsistencies," she said. "Simply put, they do not add up."