Trending UN Watch tweets from February: China denies abuses against Uighurs, as one year marked since the death of Wuhan’s Dr. Li Wenliang, the COVID-19 whistleblower; Amnesty International strips Alexei Navalny of prisoner of conscience status as Russia sentences him to prison; Iranian world judo champion arrives in Israel; Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro addresses UN Human Rights Council; U.N. to elect Syria to top post fighting “subjugation of peoples;” UAE becomes first Arab state to reach Mars.
Human Rights Abusers Sit on the UN Human Rights Council
10 human rights abusers:
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇷🇺 Russia
🇨🇳 China
🇱🇾 Libya
🇨🇺 Cuba10 UN Human Rights Council members:
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇱🇾 Libya
🇨🇳 China
🇷🇺 Russia
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇲🇷 Mauritania— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 14, 2021
China Denies Human Rights Abuses Against Uighurs as One Year Marked Since Death of COVID-19 Whistleblower
no, most westerners are actually happy just consuming your cheap goods but we do have this little problem when you herd 1 million uighurs into camps, disappear those who sounded the alarm about the coronavirus, jail human rights activists and crush democracy in hong kong https://t.co/hxhxNMlOC0
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 25, 2021
you herded 1 million uighurs into camps https://t.co/3qthoOcFeg
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 22, 2021
Dr. Li Wenliang tried to sound the alarm on seeing early COVID-19 infections in Wuhan.
Police summoned him for middle-of-the-night interrogation & under threat of prosecution made him sign a promise not to “publish untrue statements.“
Dr. Li died of COVID one year ago. #Hero pic.twitter.com/dHbcSffPCL
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 6, 2021
Amnesty International Strips Alexei Navalny of Prisoner of Conscience Status as Russia Sentences Him to Prison
And Putin's regime just joined the U.N. Human Rights Council. https://t.co/b90I6ph67v
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 2, 2021
1/ Amnesty International strips Alexei Navalny of his prisoner of conscience status, saying he advocated hatred & discrimination. But Amnesty is being selective as they have supported radical Islamists, antisemites, misogynists, homophobes & terrorists. ⬇️https://t.co/3lDZe6T3L4
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 25, 2021
Iranian Judo Champion Arrives in Israel
Humanity defeats hate.
Saeid Mollaei is the world judo champion from Iran who defied regime orders in 2019 to lose intentionally to avoid competing with Israelis. He defected to Germany.
He lands in the Jewish state today for a Tel Aviv tournament.https://t.co/Hhyryhw4L1
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 14, 2021
Nicolas Maduro Addresses Human Rights Council
The Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro sits on the United Nations Human Rights Council. That's the whole tweet. pic.twitter.com/EcnGx6Gxo1
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 4, 2021
No joke: Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to address opening of U.N. Human Rights Council next week.
Maduro will celebrate the first anniversary since his regime was elected as a council member.
We are fighting to expel him. Join us: ⬇️https://t.co/feHXr0BdEr
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 17, 2021
Human Rights Council Fails to Respond to Ugandan Political Kidnappings
🇺🇬 Uganda kidnaps political opponents as crackdowns on critics of the Museveni regime continue. No one knows where they are. https://t.co/2ej5eJ7Lqj
Reaction from the United Nations Human Rights Council: pic.twitter.com/xXkX3Ib8wj
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) February 12, 2021
U.N. to Elect Syria to Top Post Fighting “Subjugation of Peoples”
No joke: U.N. to elect 🇸🇾 Syria's genocidal Assad regime to top post fighting “subjugation of peoples.“
The announcement by the Special Committee on Decolonization came on same day that a U.N. inquiry accused Syria of committing “crimes against humanity.“https://t.co/BetgdVJdPG
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 19, 2021
UAE Spacecraft Reaches Mars
Brilliant.
Let us hope that one day the Arabs in Gaza will also be educated to launch rockets to Mars and not at people. pic.twitter.com/UX6mvwGtwb
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 10, 2021
Liking, retweeting, following: UN Watch tweets were liked and shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders and celebrities such as:
- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó & his U.S. envoy Carlos Vecchio, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro, former Bolivian president Tuto Quiroga
- Russian opposition activists Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza, Venezuelan opposition politician Maria Corina Machado, Cuban human rights activist Rosa María Payá, Turkish human rights activist Barbaros Sansal, Uighur American human rights advocate Nury Turkel, Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail, Zimbabwean democratic activist Evan Mawarire
- Former Virginia Attorney General and Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli
- Former Canadian immigration minister Chris Alexander, Canadian Senator Linda Frum
- UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust issues Lord Eric Pickles, former Australian MP Michael Danby, French politician Meyer Habib
- Israeli ambassador to Belgium Emmanuel Nahshon, Israeli MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh, former Israeli ambassador to India Daniel Carmon, former Israeli ambassador to South Africa Arthur Lenk
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies President Clifford May and CEO Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director of Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies Kyle Matthews, International Observatory of Human Rights, Lawyers Without Borders president William Goldnadel, AJC Transatlantic Institute director Daniel Schwammenthal
- U.S. actor Joshua Malina, Irish actor Rory Cowan
- Former U.S. professional tennis player Victor Amaya, ESPN and Fox Sports presenter Ross Dyer, Canadian former professional ice hockey player Dustin Penner
- Tech entrepreneur David Sacks
Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:
- Washington Post columnist and CNN contributor Frida Ghitis, former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss, National Review contributing editor Andrew Stuttaford and senior writer Dan McLaughlin, New York Post journalist Jon Levine
- The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg, Commentary associate editor Noah Rothman, Canadian Global News Radio broadcaster Alex Pierson, NPR international correspondent Ruth Sherlock
- National Post columnists Terry Glavin and Rupa Subramanya, Toronto Sun columnist Lorrie Goldstein, Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne, Toronto Star journalist Jeremy Nuttall
- Sky News Australia hosts Rita Panahi and Sharri Markson
- Jerusalem Post journalists Lahav Harkov and Tovah Lazaroff, Israel Hayom senior diplomatic correspondent Ariel Kahana, Jewish Chronicle deputy editor Jake Wallis Simons
