UN Watch’s Top Tweets in December 2020

Trending UN Watch tweets from December: China’s Xi Jinping prepares to join the UN Human Rights Council, praises own human rights record; the World Health Organization’s Chinese propagandist locks his Twitter account; dictatorships vote against UN resolution condemning Iran’s human rights abuses, even as Tehran executes kidnapped journalist; Israeli peace with Arab states negates John Kerry’s four no’s; Swedish government’s hypocritical “feminist foreign policy” exposed.

Human Rights Abusers Prepare to Join UN Human Rights Council

The Top 10 Worst Regimes Who Will be Sitting on the U.N. Human Rights Council on January 1st, 2021:

10. 🇵🇰 Pakistan
9. 🇲🇷 Mauritania
8. 🇨🇲 Cameroon
7. 🇸🇴 Somalia
6. 🇷🇺 Russia
5. 🇱🇾 Libya
4. 🇨🇺 Cuba
3. 🇪🇷 Eritrea
2. 🇻🇪 Venezuela
1. 🇨🇳 China

Happy New Year.

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 28, 2020

I'm not making this up.

U.N. Human Rights Council members now include:
🇻🇪 Venezuela's Maduro regime
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇲🇷 Mauritania
🇨🇲 Cameroon
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇱🇾 Libya

Joining on January 1st:
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇳 China
🇷🇺 Russia
🇨🇺 Cuba

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 19, 2020

Here are some of the world's worst regimes:
🇵🇰 Pakistan (persecutes Christians, Hindu, Ahmadis)
🇨🇳 China (herded 1 million Uighurs into camps)
🇷🇺 Russia (poisons dissidents)
🇨🇺 Cuba (police state)

Here are some new UNHRC members on Jan. 1:
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇨🇳 China
🇷🇺 Russia
🇨🇺 Cuba

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 18, 2020

China’s Xi Jinping to Join UNHRC

One week from tomorrow, a man who herded 1 million Uighurs into camps, jails human rights activists, crushed Tibet, disappeared courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the coronavirus, and suffocated freedom in Hong Kong will join the U.N.'s highest human rights body. pic.twitter.com/j4iSBOOnlk

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 24, 2020

WHO’s Chinese Propagandist Locks His Twitter Account

I couldn't make this up if I tried: World Health Organization 'Goodwill Ambassador' James Chau now has his tweets locked. 🔒 "Only approved followers can see @jameschau's tweets."

Move comes after we exposed that he's paid by the Chinese regime to spin their COVID-19 propaganda. pic.twitter.com/212wYKltXN

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 20, 2020

U.N. Member States Vote Against Condemning Iranian Human Rights Abuses

LIST OF SHAME: Countries who just voted NO to UN General Assembly condemnation of #Iran's human rights abuses.
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇵🇭 Philippines
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
🇳🇮 Nicaragua
🇱🇧 Lebanon
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇷🇺 Russia
🇴🇲 Oman
🇨🇳 China
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇮🇳 India
🇮🇶 Iraq pic.twitter.com/UUgBmAaIbh

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 16, 2020

Iran Executes Kidnapped Journalist

🇮🇷 Iran’s monstrous regime just executed exiled journalist Ruhollah Zam for inspiring nationwide protests in 2017, after they tricked him into traveling to Iraq and kidnapped him.

🇮🇷 Iran’s monstrous regime sits on the U.N. Commission on Criminal Justice.

Why, @antonioguterres? pic.twitter.com/ST9y8To4za

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 12, 2020

Israeli Peace With Arab States Negates John Kerry’s Four No’s

🇦🇪🇮🇱 Peace between United Arab Emirates & Israel.
🇲🇦🇮🇱 Peace between Morocco & Israel.
🇧🇭🇮🇱 Peace between Bahrain & Israel.
🇸🇩🇮🇱 Peace between Sudan & Israel.
⬇️⬇️ Quotes that didn't age well. pic.twitter.com/prCvLZJmwS

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 10, 2020

China Praises its Human Rights Efforts

you herded 1 million uighurs into camps https://t.co/MyqLC7jEu8

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 11, 2020

Chinese Doctor Who Tried to Warn About Coronavirus Should Be Recognized

Dr. Li Wenliang, 1986-2020. 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 on Feb. 7. https://t.co/R1Y8dKIyIa

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 11, 2020

Swedish Government’s Hypocritical “Feminist Foreign Policy” Exposed

Yes, we saw your Swedish government’s #FeministForeignPolicy on full display before smiling Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. https://t.co/ul36N8TWet pic.twitter.com/5I71D6cdxo

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) December 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1335523565190467586?s=20

Liking, retweeting, following: UN Watch tweets were liked and shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders and celebrities such as:

• Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, human rights activist and chess master Garry Kasparov, Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, Cuban human rights activist Rosa Maria Paya, Kurdish singer and activist Dashni Morad, Ukrainian feminist activist Inna Shevchenko, Iranian human rights activists Masih Alinejad & Ahmad Batebi, Chinese cyber-dissident Wu Lebao
• Former Pakistan ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani
• Actress Mia Farrow,  actor Joshua Malina, UK television presenter and activist Rachel Riley, film director Judd Apatow, New Zealand actress Emma Lahana, comedian & actor Elon Gold, actor Zak Resnick, Mumford and Sons musician Winston Marshall
• Canadian MP Peter Kent, Canadian Senators Linda Frum and Leo Housakos, former Canadian Minister of Immigration Chris Alexander
• Member of the UK House of Lords Baroness Helena Morrissey, UK MP Alicia Kearns, former Australian MP Michael Danby
• Former England international soccer player Matthew Le Tissier, former U.S. national soccer player Cobi Jones, UK presenter & former tennis player Annabel Croft, Canadian football player Jeff Hecht, former international rugby union referee Jonathan Kaplan
• Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan, Israeli Member of Knesset Michal Cotler-Wunsh
• Philanthropist Adam Milstein, Foundation for Defense of Democracies President Clifford May and CEO Mark Dubowitz
• Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Foundation CEO Thor Halvorssen, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies Executive Director Kyle Matthews

Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:

• CNN anchor Jake Tapper, former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, commentator Ben Shapiro, The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg, Wall Street Journal writer Gregory Zuckerman, Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake
• National Post columnist Terry Glavin, Toronto Sun columnists Tarek Fatah and Lorrie Goldstein, Canadian broadcaster Alex Pierson, Toronto Star journalist Joanna Chiu, 
• Author Douglas Murray, Sunday Times of London chief foreign correspondent Christina Lamb, UK journalist James Bloodworth
• Spectator writer Stephen L. Miller, Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi
• Jerusalem Post journalists Lahav Harkov and Herb Keinon, Israel Hayom diplomatic correspondent Ariel Kahana