SEOUL (AFP) – Some of the South Korean Christian aid workers held hostage by Afghanistan’s Taliban said they were beaten for refusing to convert to Islam and protecting female captives, a hospital chief said Monday.We found through medical checks that some male hostages were beaten,” Cha Seung-Gyun told reporters after …

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called for the improvement of the international mechanisms for protecting human rights, including the Universal Declaration of Human Right, stressing that the weak points existing in such mechanisms should be removed.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the member states of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to define and promote real human rights based on spirituality and justice in the world.