🌎 The Top 10 Human Rights Abusers of 2020 🌎
10: 🇷🇺Russia
Poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, held 362 political prisoners, tortured detainees, persecuted 300 Jehovah’s Witnesses, bombed schools, hospitals and markets in Syria, backed Belarus tyrant Lukashenko.
10: 🇷🇺Russia
Poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, held 362 political prisoners, tortured detainees, persecuted 300 Jehovah’s Witnesses, bombed schools, hospitals and markets in Syria, backed Belarus tyrant Lukashenko.
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.
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.
8: 🇹🇷 Turkey
Indicted jailed human rights activist Osman Kavala on new false charges, sentenced journalist Can Dündar to 27 years in jail on fake terrorism charge, cut off water supply to 460,000 Kurds, ranked first for number of reporters jailed, fueled wars in Syria & Libya.
Indicted jailed human rights activist Osman Kavala on new false charges, sentenced journalist Can Dündar to 27 years in jail on fake terrorism charge, cut off water supply to 460,000 Kurds, ranked first for number of reporters jailed, fueled wars in Syria & Libya.
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.
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.
6: 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
Arrested investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono after he exposed health ministry corruption scandal, cracked down on protesters and government critics with abductions, torture and sexual abuse, beat nurses & harassed teachers for criticizing COVID response.
Arrested investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono after he exposed health ministry corruption scandal, cracked down on protesters and government critics with abductions, torture and sexual abuse, beat nurses & harassed teachers for criticizing COVID response.
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.
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.
4: 🇻🇪Venezuela
Raided and froze assets of food pantry that gives meals to underprivileged children, assassinated critics of Maduro, forced opposition leader to flee, held fake elections, turned blind eye to humanitarian crisis causing 5 million refugees.
Raided and froze assets of food pantry that gives meals to underprivileged children, assassinated critics of Maduro, forced opposition leader to flee, held fake elections, turned blind eye to humanitarian crisis causing 5 million refugees.
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.
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.
2: 🇮🇷 Iran
Executed wrestler Navid Afkari and journalist Ruhollah Zam for criticizing the regime, funded Syrian mass murder & Hezbollah terror, arrested women for not covering their hair, bombed passenger jet killing 176 passengers, covered it up, massacred peaceful protesters.
Executed wrestler Navid Afkari and journalist Ruhollah Zam for criticizing the regime, funded Syrian mass murder & Hezbollah terror, arrested women for not covering their hair, bombed passenger jet killing 176 passengers, covered it up, massacred peaceful protesters.
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.
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.
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