US Election 2016: Top UN official condemns Trump

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the policies of US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, equating them to bigotry. ZeidRaad al-Hussein did not mention Mr Trump by name, but he singled out the businessman’s support of torture and his policies towards Muslims. “Bigotry is not proof of strong leadership,” Mr Hussein said. […]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned the policies of US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, equating them to bigotry.
ZeidRaad al-Hussein did not mention Mr Trump by name, but he singled out the businessman’s support of torture and his policies towards Muslims.
“Bigotry is not proof of strong leadership,” Mr Hussein said.
The commissioner also criticised a plan by rival candidate Ted Cruz to conduct surveillance on Muslim neighbourhoods.
“Hate speech, incitement and marginalisation of the ‘other’ are not a tittering form of entertainment, or a respectable vehicle for political profit,” Mr Hussein told an audience in Cleveland, Ohio.
He added: “A front-running candidate to be president of this country declared, just a few months ago, his enthusiastic support for torture (…) inflicting intolerable pain on people, in order to force them to deliver or invent information that they may not have.”