GENEVA, July 17, 2020 — A watchdog revealed today that China was Chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council vetting process that nominated Amnesty International’s former chief Irene Khan to be the next world monitor on free speech—a decision to be ratified this afternoon by the 47-nation plenary—as it emerges that she enjoys close ties with the Communist regime. See more below on Khan’s relationship with Beijing.
Only in the Orwellian world of the UNHRC would a totalitarian regime that silences, jails & crushes dissenting voices, and runs the Great Firewall of China to block Internet from its people, be allowed to choose the next UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression. pic.twitter.com/mKOp9BzYqv
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 17, 2020
In a 2018 speech in Beijing, Khan hailed China’s Belt and Road Initiative, for its “potential to improve the lives of billions of people,” “anchored in the purposes of the United Nations,” able to “contribute to strengthening international rule of law.”https://t.co/5eOQ47PS8C
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 17, 2020
Khan appears to have visited China often. In 2016, at Tsinghua University, she “spoke highly of China’s contribution to the global sustainable development.”https://t.co/DnoSy1ggy7
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 17, 2020
For a human rights activist, it's weird that Irene Khan's Twitter account only has PRAISE for China. This is a regime that commits horrific and widespread violations of human rights affecting many hundreds of millions of people. #STOPUigurMuslimGenocidehttps://t.co/w4TPQpStLx pic.twitter.com/SQAFIKOQpu
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 17, 2020
