The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) added on Wednesday evening Israel to a list of states which have been committing human rights abuses against activists.
The blacklist comprises 29 states which the UNHRC deemed as the world’s most abusive authorities.
People communicating with the UN rights body had been abducted detained held incommunicado or had disappeared U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour said.
Nine of the states named in Gilmour’s report are current members of the 47-country U.N. Human Rights Council.
