Belarus could bring down 'another iron curtain' across Europe

UN investigator warns of catastrophic' stiuation with more than 10,000 protesters abusively arrested'

A United Nations investigator has warned of the danger of another iron curtain" falling across Europe during an ill-tempered debate in Geneva on alleged human rights violations in Belarus.

Let's not allow another iron curtain to descend on the European continent," Anais Marin, the UN's special rapporteur on Belarus, said, in an urgent session of the body's 47-member human rights council that was repeatedly interrupted by procedural objections from Belarus, Russia, China and Venezuela.