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#INTERSECTIONALITY 🇵🇸 Palestinian unelected President Mahmoud Abbas to 🇨🇳 China's unelected President Xi: "We firmly support China's position on Hong Kong & Xinjiang."

China crushed Hong Kong's freedom, and is holding 1 million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang "re-education camps." pic.twitter.com/CFp3Irfhgw

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) July 23, 2020

.@CNN's @FareedZakaria: "Do you deny China's attempt at forced population control, including forced sterilizations and abortions of the Uighurs?"

🇨🇳 China's @AmbCuiTiankai: "Of course I deny it. What an absurd fabrication." pic.twitter.com/ge1vSjSNVe

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) July 22, 2020

.@SkyNewsAust: China’s nominee to the Human Rights Council for free speech, Irene Khan, has “showered praise upon the Chinese regime” and its Belt and Road Initiative, one of the factors fueling the persecution of Uighurs, says UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer.https://t.co/LgOZkw9c1U

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) July 20, 2020

Khan did not mention how the $1 trillion-dollar infrastructure development & investments scheme is seen as a major factor fueling Beijing's persecution of the Uighurs, who live in a region at the heart of the network. Nor did she raise any human rights concerns about China.

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) July 17, 2020

25 years ago: China kidnapped 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 2nd most important figure in Tibetan Buddhism & world's youngest political prisoner—whereabouts unknown.

Now: China just joined the UN panel that selects members of the UN committee on enforced disappearances. pic.twitter.com/e4Bg2Ot7Jf

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) May 5, 2020

China detains parents of Zulhumar Isaac and millions of others in Xinjiang for the crime of being Uighur Muslims.

Why won't the UN Human Rights Council call for an emergency session? https://t.co/jE5HImgRnZ

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) February 1, 2020

China authorities decimate city of Yarkand, once a bastion of life for Uighur Muslims, with mass detentions, bulldozers & high surveillance to do away with Uighur identity.

Why is the United Nations silent?
https://t.co/Ylxsv3EBz1

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 21, 2020

China's top diplomat says Taiwan separatists will "leave a stink for 10,000 years" in reaction to landslide election victory for incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen, who ran on standing up to Beijing.

Why is China on the UN committee overseeing rights NGOs? https://t.co/zndc5vVNE8

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020

China's mass detention of Uighur Muslims explains why "the global mood towards Beijing has turned to fear, suspicion, anger, horror, and distrust."

Why is China on the U.N. committee overseeing human rights NGOs?
https://t.co/8kOBw7QD35

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020

China's effort to erase Uighur identity begins with children, who are separated from parents, hauled to faraway camps, and instructed to replace Uighur language & culture with "coerced respect" for Communist Party traditions.

Will the U.N. act? https://t.co/9RSRBfb7u2 pic.twitter.com/KVPhgY1jce

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020

China authorities frame detention camps in Xinjiang as part of robust counter-terror effort when in fact they represent China's effort to systematically eliminate Uighur identity.

Why is the U.N. Human Rights Council silent?
https://t.co/sPBYqLXAgL

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 11, 2020

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