Thread by @HillelNeuer

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

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

Happy New Year.

#10: 🇵🇰 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: 🇸🇩 Mauritania

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

#8: 🇶🇦 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: 🇸🇴 Somalia

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

#6: 🇷🇺 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: 🇱🇾 Libya

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

#4: 🇨🇺 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: 🇪🇷 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: 🇻🇪 Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro

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

✒️ unwatch.org/ExpelMaduro

#1: 🇨🇳 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.