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The top U.N. human-rights official urged Bahrain on Wednesday to release political detainees as a step toward reversing “deepening mistrust” between authorities and anti-government demonstrators.
Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said authorities must unconditionally release those convicted in military tribunals or awaiting trial merely because they exercised their “fundamental rights” of expression and assembly.
Denver Post wire services
