Thread by @HillelNeuer

U.N.believable: 🇨🇳 China gave $200,000 to 🇺🇳 U.N. human rights envoy Alena Douhan to help the regime whitewash their ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs.

Tomorrow Douhan wraps up a propaganda visit to Iran.

We are calling on @USAmbUN to condemn this cynical abuse of the UN.

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https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1526066497369657349

1/ According to information buried at p.50 of this 83-page UN filing (undocs.org/A/HRC/49/82/AD…), the UNHRC's @AlenaDouhan—the Special Rapporteur on “the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures,” the dictators' term for Western sanctions— received $200,000 from #China.

2/ In exchange, Douhan lent the imprimatur of her United Nations Human Rights Council mandate for the most extreme forms of Chinese disinformation, including this official regime-sponsored propaganda event covering up Beijing's persecution of the Uyghurs.

3/ In December, after she took China's $200,000, @AlenaDouhan suddenly appeared at this Chinese regime event, lending U.N. legitimacy to a series of propaganda videos & speeches that covered up the herding of 1 million Uyghurs into camps, falsely portraying Xinjiang as a utopia.

4/ This was the most extreme propaganda event that the UNHRC's Douhan has performed so far in helping China get away with persecuting millions of Uyghurs, but it's hardly the first. In September, she was the lead speaker at a Chinese-sponsored event against Western sanctions:

5/ China sponsored this UN Human Rights Council event with Belarus, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. Interestingly, Douhan works for the Lukashenko regime's Belarus State University; has already visited Venezuela and Zimbabwe; and is today in Iran.

6/ China is investing huge sums of money to corrupt Alena Douhan's UN human rights office because in March the US, EU, UK & Canada announced sanctions on China for committing genocide against the Uyghurs. They want her UN title to label sanctions a crime.
verfassungsblog.de/sanctioning-th…

7/ On June 3, 2021, Douhan legitimized a third propaganda event on Western sanctions co-sponsored last year by China, together with Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

ohchr.org/sites/default/…

media.un.org/en/asset/k1o/k…

8/ That a UN human rights envoy is helping brutal dictators in China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela & Zimbabwe to get away with murder is appalling. That Human Rights Watch official Peggy Hicks—who goes back and forth with the UNHRC—legitimizes it is inexcusable.

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