veiled to 74 lashes with a whip. The situation was far worse in the prisons, where men and women were tortured and burnt alive. 69. State terrorism was another aspect of human rights violations. The murder near Geneva of Mr. Rajavi, a renowned defender of human rights, was one example. The Swiss magistrate investigating the death had found evidence to indicate that one or more official Iranian services were directly involved in the murder. The media had also referred to a telegram which the victim's brother had sent to the President of the Swiss Confederation, in which he denounced two Iranian diplomats as having been responsible for supervising the execution. Police investigations had revealed that the two diplomats had in fact been in Geneva during the period in question and that they had left for Tehran on the day of the murder on a direct Iran Air flight. 70. While Mr. Rajavi's murder was being prepared, two Swiss citizens had been taken hostage by agents of the regime in Lebanon to serve as bargaining chips. When a regime responded to political and legal confrontation by murder near the United Nations in Geneva, it could be imagined what it did to its prisoners behind thick walls. 71. Before his murder Mr. Rajavi had begun a detailed and documented work entitled Human rights betrayed in reply to Mr. Galindo Pohl's report (E/CN.4/1990/24). The book sought to show what was really happening in Iran and should have the status of a United Nations document. The contradictions pointed out by Mr. Rajavi were so numerous that he would only cite one of them. Whereas the Special Representative affirmed that there had been no public execution during the five months prior to his visit, information provided by the Iranian resistance would have revealed that, solely on the 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a report on human rights violations in Iran, detailing the brutal treatment of prisoners, torture, and murder. It also mentions the involvement of Iranian officials in the murder of a human rights defender. The text does not mention any economic, environmental, or scientific topics, but rather focuses on human rights and political issues.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief, Human rights