Thread by @UNWatch

🚨 At a U.N. debate tomorrow, Hillel Neuer is set to confront the U.N.'s chief propagandist for dictators, Alena Douhan.

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Meet Alena Douhan: The U.N.’s Special Rapporteur against Western sanctions.

She has exploited her U.N. human rights
post to shield the brutal regimes in Venezuela, China, Iran, Syria and Zimbabwe.

She never opposes tyrants, instead always portraying their regime as the victim.

In 2021, China gave $200,000 to Douhan’s office at the same time as she whitewashed their ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs. She has also received $25,000 from Qatar and $150,000 from Russia.

After she took China's $200,000, Douhan suddenly appeared at this Chinese regime event, lending U.N. legitimacy to a series of propaganda videos and speeches that covered up the herding of 1 million Uyghurs into camps, falsely portraying Xinjiang as a utopia.

In 2022, Douhan made a 11-day visit to Iran in which she spurned appeals by Iranian rights activists to meet dissidents. Instead, she portrayed the regime as the victim — of Western sanctions.

Zimbabwe’s regime invited Douhan as part of its campaign to lift international sanctions. During her trip, she met with the dictator Mnangagwa and 26 regime ministers, but refused to meet with members of the opposition or civil society.

In 2022, the Bashar al-Assad regime invited Douhan to visit Syria. She met 25 regime ministers. She said “serious violations of human rights” in Syria were caused by....Western sanctions.

In 2021, dictator Nicolás Maduro welcomed Douhan to Venezuela, then cited her U.N. report—a copy of Maduro's propaganda—in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly. She blamed the West for Venezuela’s collapse, absolving Maduro.

Alena Douhan epitomizes how the UNHRC and other U.N. bodies are hijacked by dictatorships.

Tomorrow, Hillel Neuer will confront Douhan to dispel the lies she tells on behalf of the brutal dictators of China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Stay tuned for the video.