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International human rights lawyer, writer, Executive Director of United Nations Watch. BA, BCL, LLB, LLM & Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­

Dec 28, 2021, 11 tweets

The Top 10 Worst Regimes Who Will be Sitting on the U.N. Human Rights Council starting this Saturday, January 1st, 2022:

10. πŸ‡΅πŸ‡° Pakistan
9. πŸ‡²πŸ‡· Mauritania
8. πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡¦ Qatar
7. πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡΄ Somalia
6. πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Russia
5. πŸ‡±πŸ‡Ύ Libya
4. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί Cuba
3. πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡· Eritrea
2. πŸ‡»πŸ‡ͺ Venezuela
1. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ China

Happy New Year.

#10: πŸ‡΅πŸ‡° Pakistan

@UN_HRC Credentials: Persecutes Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Shias, Ahmadis; sponsors terror groups Afghan Taliban, HQN, LeT, JeM; backs Chinese genocide of Muslim Uighurs; abducts journalists.

#9: πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡© Mauritania

@UN_HRC Credentials:
βœ… Has 500,000 slaves
βœ… Arrests anti-slavery activists, like Biram Dah Abeid
βœ… Torture to extract confessions
βœ… Death penalty for homosexuality
edition.cnn.com/interactive/20…

#8: πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡¦ Qatar

@UN_HRC Credentials: Caused 6,750 migrant workers to die for 2022 World Cup; discrimination against women; supports terrorists including Al Qaeda in Syria, Jihadis in Libya and Somalia, the Taliban and Hamas.

#7: πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡΄ Somalia

@UN_HRC Credentials:
β€’ 95% of girls aged 4 to 11 face genital mutilation
β€’ Women at constant risk of getting shot or raped
β€’ Somalia is described as "a living hell" for women
washingtonpost.com/news/worldview…

#6: πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Russia

@UN_HRC Credentials: Bombs Syrian civilians, trampled Ukraine, swallowed Crimea, poisons dissidents, no free or fair elections, tortures detainees, imprisons opposition leader Alexei Navalny, crushes freedom of speech and assembly.

#5: πŸ‡±πŸ‡Ύ Libya

@UN_HRC Credentials:
βœ… Rated β€œWorst of the Worst” by Freedom House
βœ… Unelected government
βœ… Extrajudicial killings
βœ… Tortures migrants
βœ… Arbitrary arrests
unwatch.org/libya-set-to-w…

#4: πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί Cuba

@UN_HRC Credentials: 60-year totalitarian regime; bans free speech, association; blocks vital food & medical aid; infiltrates & subverts entire hemisphere; drug trafficking; sends doctors abroad as slave labor.

#3: πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡· Eritrea

@UN_HRC Credentials: Authoritarian regime; forced child labor; arbitrary executions; disappears dissidents; torture; arbitrary arrest; denial of fair public trial; restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly, association, and religion. unwatch.org/eritrea-set-wi…

#2: πŸ‡»πŸ‡ͺ Venezuela dictator NicolΓ‘s Maduro

@UN_HRC Credentials: Destroyed his country; starved his people; crushed pro-democracy dissidents; caused 5 million to flee.

βœ’οΈ unwatch.org/ExpelMaduro

#1: πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ China

@UN_HRC Credentials: Herded 1 million Uighurs into camps; jails human rights activists; crushed Tibet; disappeared courageous men and women who sounded the alarm on the Coronavirus; suffocated freedom in Hong Kong; put @JamesChau into WHO to whitewash COVID crimes.

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