Defecting Libyan diplomat same who silenced UN testimony of victims

February 27, 2011
Libya

Adel Shaltut, Second Secretary at the Libya U.N. mission in Geneva, defected before the U.N. Human Rights council yesterday and denounced the Qaddafi regime. Yet just months ago the same Adel Shaltut tried to silence Libya victims brought by UN Watch:

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Defecting Libyan diplomat same who silenced UN testimony of victims

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