Absurd and immoral’: China wins seat on UN Human Rights Council

by: Free Press International News Service
2020-04-13

China’s appointment to a seat on the Consultative Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has sparked global outrage from human rights groups.

China’s appointee, Jiang Duan, will be part of a panel that will select the UNHRC’s monitors on health, freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances.

UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said the appointment was “like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief.”

“It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide,” Neuer said.

Dolkun Isa, president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) exile group, cited China’s incarceration of up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps since April 2017. Isa said putting China on the panel was “like appointing a wolf to protect sheep.”

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