Posted on 09/17/2019 9:23:17 AM PDT by DFG
A Hong Kong legislator and pro-democracy activist went to the U.N.’s top human rights body in Geneva this week to appeal for action in the face of alleged police brutality, only to be reprimanded by the presiding officer.
Human Rights Council vice president Carlos Mario Foradori told Tanya Chan that her statement did not fall within the parameters of the agenda item being discussed – “Promotion and protection of all human rights.”
In her statement, delivered during a segment of the session devoted to non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives, Chan accused Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed authorities of endorsing “police abuse” against pro-democracy protestors.
“The police call protesters ‘cockroaches.’ Brutal crackdowns and pre-emptive violence against them are hence regarded as acceptable pest control, to curb free speech.”
Chan, a founder the pro-democracy Civic Party, urged the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to support holding an urgent HRC session on the situation in Hong Kong, and the establishment of a commission of inquiry.
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Misnamed UNHRC doesn’t slam China’s Communist dictatorship. It blasts a HK democratic activist. Geez.
ZimpIe!
The marxist musIim aIIiance is against democracy.
Don’t even bother with the UN when it comes to China, Saudi Arabia and others who line the pockets and provide many secrets including trafficking in vices is the lesson of the day kids.
US out of UN!
If the statements were anti-America, I’m sure vice president Carlos Mario Foradori would have had a completely different opinion.
The UN is a total joke. Actually, an absurdity.
Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN!
Bingo.
They’ll probably have a celebratory party for “AntiFa”.
UN: What? You aren’t a gay, transgendered African? We are NOT interested!
U.N. Dictator Protection Commission.
Another brain-dead liberation theory Marxist from Argentina like his buddy Francis the Pope.
She should have blamed Israel, and then the United Abominations would’ve been on that like a soiled diaper on a baby.
Time to stop funding a lot more UN farcical committees.
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