Following is UN Watch’s list of the top 10 human rights abusers of 2020.
9: 🇰🇵 North Korea
Killed a fishing captain for listening to international radio at sea, ignored hunger crisis that has caused millions to starve, detained 100,000 in camps where they are subject to forced labor & summary executions, forced children to attend public executions. pic.twitter.com/CMfDGFyTjl
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) December 29, 2020
7: 🇨🇺 Cuba
Denied all basic human freedoms, arrested rapper Denis Solis for songs that criticize police, crushed protesters, shut down social media networks to bury news of repression, promoted drug trafficking, blocked food and medical aid, sent doctors abroad as slave labor. pic.twitter.com/LynoF8hzbf
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) December 29, 2020
5: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Sentenced women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to 6 years in prison, continued to imprison human rights hero Raif Badawi after 8 years, imposed travel restrictions to silence critics, indiscriminately bombed Yemen schools & hospitals, killing thousands. pic.twitter.com/bT3Sy5L81f
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) December 29, 2020
3: 🇨🇲Cameroon
Tortured journalist Samuel Abuwe to death, massacred children in English-speaking schools as part of anglophone crisis (3,000 dead and 500,000 displaced since 2016), threatened political opponents with extrajudicial killings and gender-based violence. pic.twitter.com/FvCkrwm4qe
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) December 29, 2020
1: 🇨🇳 China
Herded 1 million Uighurs into camps, jailed human rights activists, crushed Tibet, silenced courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the coronavirus—like Dr. Li Wenliang and citizen journalist Zhang Zhan—and suffocated freedom in Hong Kong. pic.twitter.com/EhZupk1lQI
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) December 29, 2020
