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International human rights lawyer, writer, Executive Director of United Nations Watch. BA, BCL, LLB, LLM & Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa. 🇨🇦🇨🇭

Sep 13, 2020, 5 tweets

Bravo to @jaketapper for calling out Disney. Not only did it film “Mulan” in areas where 1 million Muslim Uighurs have been herded into camps but they thanked the Chinese regime entities who are doing it. “The big problem is Disney thanking people accused of committing genocide.”

When I spoke out at the U.N. Human Rights Council for 1 million Muslim Uighurs herded into camps by China, regime reps furiously banged on the table trying to shut me down.

Tomorrow the UNHRC opens again—and we won't let Beijing intimidate us into silence about their atrocities.

The Chinese regime delegate took the floor at the U.N. Human Rights Council this summer to lash out at my “ungrounded attacks” after I dared to call out Beijing’s new role on a 5-nation UNHRC panel that will select 17 human rights experts this year.

I asked the UNHRC: "We just heard from Pakistan—on behalf of 57 Islamic States—about Islamophobia. Yet if they truly care about Muslims, why have they failed to bring a single resolution for 1 million Muslims being detained in camps and persecuted for their religion by China?"

It's much worse: 50 U.N. Human Rights Council ambassadors PRAISED China for locking up 1 million Muslims:
🇵🇸 State of Palestine
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇨🇩 DR Congo
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇧🇮 Burundi
🇩🇿 Algeria
🇷🇺 Russia
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇸🇾 Syria
🇮🇷 Iran
🇮🇶 Iraq
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