GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s human rights chief says more than 100 people have died during the unrest in Tunisia.
Navi Pillay also told reporters at the U.N.’s European headquarters Wednesday that she would send a team to Tunisia to investigate, and that “human rights abuses were at the heart of Tunisia’s problems.”
Pillay says her office has received information on more than 100 deaths in the last five weeks “as a result of live fire, as well as protest suicides and the deadly prison riots at the weekend.”
She says she will ask the team to return with a plan for ridding the nation of abuses.
The statement came as the Swiss government moved to freeze the assets of Tunisia’s ousted president and about 40 people in his entourage.
