The British Court Called For An Investigation Into The Appointment Of Chinese Officials In The Human Rights Council
An independent London-based court wrote to Antonio Guterres, the
UN Secretary General, who called on him to investigate the appointment of a
Chinese official to the UN Human Rights Council.
On
1 April, Jiang Duan, the head of the Chinese Mission in Geneva, was appointed
to the advisory group of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
According
to Newsweek , after the appointment, Mr. Geoffrey Nice, a human rights
lawyer and chair of the London-based independent court, said that Tuong Doan
was appointed to the Advisory Group of the Inter-Human Rights Council.
The
United Nations (UN) means the UN is "complicit" with China's human
rights violations, including the suppression of Islamic groups in the western
part of the country and live organ harvesting.
Regarding Chiang's appointment, Hamid Sabi, a court adviser told
Newsweek that Chiang's role in the five-member Advisory Group will give Beijing
"great influence" to deal with and "Blocking any investigation
of human rights violations in China by manipulating other members".
In
addition, Jiang's appointment has raised "serious concerns" among
members of the Court that the world's "major international
organizations" are unwilling to confront China over violations of human
rights, including organ harvesting.
Tony
Perkins, chairman of the United States International Religious Freedom
Commission, told The Epoch Times that Chiang's appointment to the UN
Human Rights Council's Advisory Group was like giving a "fox".
protecting the chicken cages, ”he said, at the same time, he said the Committee
for Religious Freedom opposed the appointment.
"To be honest, any country concerned with human rights should speak up about this and should do everything possible to prevent that from happening."
he told
The Epoch Times.
US
Senators John Cornyn and Marco Rubio also wrote to Guterres protesting the
appointment:
“The Chinese government's deceitful behavior toward the international community about the serious dangers of corona virus ( Covid-19) outbreak in Wuhan, China violated any belief in human rights and should exclude them from the advisory group of the Human Rights Council. "
In addition to calling for an investigation of Mr. Jiang's
appointment, the independent court letter sent to Mr. Guterres also mentioned
that Beijing is still carrying out forced organ harvesting, and thinks the
crime is comparable "to the most brutal atrocities that occurred during
the conflicts of the 20th century, ”such as the Nazi massacre of Jews, the
Khmer Rouge massacre in Cambodia and the Rwanda genocide .
Earlier,
in March, the London-based Independent Court declared that the Chinese
government continued its live organ harvesting of prisoners of
conscience and sold them to the live organ transplant market to make a profit.
China
has consistently denied any allegations of organ harvesting, although in 2005
it admitted it had removed organs from death row inmates, and said the practice
ended in 2015.
However,
according to investigators, the source of organs comes not only from death row
inmates but also from Falun Gong practitioners and the Uyghur
community in Xinjiang.
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