‘ALARMING’: UN rigs debate, silences voices of Iran dissidents and victims

Hillel Neuer of NGO UN Watch is being silenced during a current Human Rights Council debate on Iran, although it was the most widely viewed intervention in the name of dissidents and victims during last November’s session. He urges people to sign his petition.

I have alarming news to report. The U.N. Human Rights Council is now in session, but they’ve rigged the speaker’s lists so that I can’t take the floor.

Today, they’re holding a debate on Iran. The Council gave the floor to numerous dictatorships, and to three “non-governmental”… pic.twitter.com/H6bYTSSoaW

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 5, 2023

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