GENEVA, January 15, 2020 — As thousands of courageous men and women in Iran have taken to the streets and risked their lives for the cause of human dignity and freedom over the past five days, in opposition to the brutal, corrupt and mendacious regime of Ayatollah Khamenei, UN Watch has stood with the protesters, amplifying their voices in The Independent, the front page of the New York Post, and other global media. Please see below.
Front page @NYPost quotes Hillel Neuer: "There's hope for a better Middle East."https://t.co/C1wdsjqeDY pic.twitter.com/0gz4RMaCNk
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020
.@NYDailyNews: "Video showed students avoiding the flags, then deriding those who walked over them, according to the nongovernmental organization @UNWatch."https://t.co/Sp4VqyGYJi
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020
.@Jerusalem_Post: "Hillel Neuer, the executive director of the NGO UN Watch, tweeted in response ';these courageous Iranian students who refuse to trample the US & Israeli flags represent the hope for a better Middle East.'" https://t.co/N81Hxp1hz5
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020
.@JewishJournal: “Hillel Neuer, the executive director of NGO UN Watch, tweeted in response: 'these courageous Iranian students who refuse to trample the U.S. & Israeli flags represent the hope for a better Middle East'.”https://t.co/rSYWHXsXN3
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020
.@CBNNews quotes UN Watch: "Students in Tehran University take pains to avoid walking on the flags of U.S. & Israel—as the regime makes people do—and when two Basiji regime agents then make a point of trampling the flags, the crowds shout "Besharaf!" #بیشرف — "Shame on you!" https://t.co/1vUQXKNTWU
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020
Quoting UN Watch's @HillelNeuer: “These courageous Iranian students who refuse to trample the U.S. & Israeli flags represent the hope for a better Middle East. Engage with & promote them instead of their oppressors, and maybe Iran-backed wars & terror across the region will end.” https://t.co/CBvqgszrGc
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020
Quoting UNW's @HillelNeuer “Well said, Donald Trump. Please now stand with the victims & dissidents of this brutal regime by rescinding the travel ban. Keep out all tied to the regime. But Iranian refugees are incredible people who have contributed enormously to life in America.” https://t.co/sdJhTLhqGv
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 14, 2020
UN Watch further mobilized support for the protests with viral tweets exposing the shameful silence of the UN Human Rights Council as well as of major NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, which turned a blind eye to the heroes challenging the oppressive Tehran regime.
🇮🇷 Iran protests in past two months:
1,500 protesters killed by regime
4,800 Injured
7,000 arrested🇺🇳 Reaction from U.N. Human Rights Council:
0 resolutions
0 urgent sessions
0 commissions of inquiryWhy, @mbachelet?
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 13, 2020
Why are @Amnesty & @HRW silent? History will remember that the richest and most powerful international human rights organizations, beholden to a narrow set of political and ideological agendas, betrayed the Iranian protest movement in their time of need.https://t.co/OpokC5lyov
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 12, 2020
