The Commission of Inquiry was created by the Human Rights Council in June 2014, through a consensus decision in which the Council condemned the "continued widespread and systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms committed by the Eritrean authorities, including cases of arbitrary and extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, the use of torture, arbitrary and incommunicado detention without recourse to justice, and detention in inhumane and degrading conditions".
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