Experts on communist China’s systematic human rights abuses have expressed disgust and alarm at the process by which the United Nations Human Rights Council assessed China’s performance in its “periodic review” at the end of January. He accused them of hijacking the process to drown out criticism and criticism. Raise your friendly voice.
The Human Rights Council evaluates all United Nations member states through a process called “.universal periodic review”, the Council will draft a report on governments’ respect for human rights and allow peer commentary sessions in which other countries can comment on respect for human rights or evidence of human rights violations. In 2024, the Human Rights Council will assess 14 countries, including China.that held A peer review session for China was held on January 23rd.
“Last week, at the Universal Periodic Review of the People’s Republic of China at the United Nations, the Chinese Communist Party thought it could drown out the truth about its own shameful human rights record,” said Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.). said. Chairman of the Congressional Executive Committee on China (CECC); Said At a hearing on the U.N. process held on Thursday, he urged allies to “encourage allies to offer sweet praise rather than probing questions, while giving a platform to party-controlled civil society groups rather than independent non-governmental organizations.” “I gave them,” he said.
Smith declared that the Chinese Communist Party and its leader, totalitarian dictator Xi Jinping, are a “systematic challenge to the rules-based international order.”
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The public hearing is of the title “China’s Universal Periodic Review and the State of Human Rights in China” shares evidence of widespread human rights atrocities at home with genuine Chinese human rights experts and victims of the communist regime, and tells China’s global This provided an opportunity to explain how huge an influence it has on the world. The United Nations is corrupting its values.
The Chinese Communist Party is one of the world’s most aggressive national human rights violators. At the top of the list of atrocities is the ongoing genocide against the Uyghur minority in East Turkestan, which communist China occupies and administers under its Mandarin name, Xinjiang. In addition to imprisoning up to 3 million Uyghurs and other Turkish minorities in concentration camps, China has reduced the population through the killing of Uyghur babies in and out of the womb and the forced sterilization of entire villages of women. has been engaged in an organized campaign to , a widespread campaign to enslave people in factories, and a documented killing process in which the organs of Uyghurs were cut out while they were alive and sold to wealthy buyers.
This photo taken on May 31, 2019 shows the exterior of a complex containing what appears to be a re-education camp where mainly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, on the outskirts of Hotan, in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. It shows. (GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
Outside East Turkestan, the atheist Communist Party has suppressed every faith known to exist in China (most notably Christianity and Islam), torturing and disappearing members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, and It actively persecutes suspected dissidents and human rights defenders, including lawyers. We specialize in legal defense of dissidents.
Sophie Luo, the wife of imprisoned human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi, spoke at Thursday’s hearing and accused the lawyer of “enforced disappearances, secret detention, torture, coerced confessions, fabrication of criminal evidence, closed trials and sentencing,” among others. enumerated various atrocities against. , and continued monitoring of human rights defenders even after their release. ”
These issues were largely absent from discussions at the United Nations in January, with the exception of some remarks by American and European representatives during the periodic review. A notable reason for the silence is that China has attempted to “obstruct a fair and thorough evaluation of its human rights record by manipulating the Universal Periodic Review (UPR),” says Lana Siu of the University of Texas at Austin. Imboden told CECC.
Falun Gong practitioners and supporters hold up photos of victims persecuted by the Chinese government during an annual rally and demonstration on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“China’s actions over the past decade have shown that China is keen to use its presence at the United Nations to change international human rights norms and rewire the system in ways that make it easier for states to evade scrutiny of their human rights records. “It shows that it’s happening,” Imboden explained. “One of China’s key strategies toward this goal is to seek sycophancy and soft comments from compliant countries in order to flood the proceedings with weak recommendations and perfunctory statements.”
Imboden said China will use all its strength to persuade friendly countries — both those that are truly allies with China and those that are economically dependent on China — to speak at the regular review conference. He pointed out that he had started the campaign mentioned above.[ing] In the process, the list of speakers will be filled with many countries making bland statements and bland or nonsensical recommendations. ”
“Due to Beijing’s machinations, 163 countries signed up to participate in speaking during the UPR period in January 2024, meaning each country had only 45 seconds to speak,” she concluded.
Rushan Abbas, founder of the human rights organization Campaign for Uyghur, said at the hearing that agents of the Chinese regime are threatening genuine representatives of oppressed communities at the United Nations and muting their voices. He said he personally witnessed attempts to erase it.
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“In Geneva, I showed how totalitarian states seeking to silence and legitimize their suppression of dissent around the world seek to exploit this United Nations mechanism to gain international recognition. I witnessed it,” Abbas told CECC. “I saw a pro-China attendee taking notes on a cell phone while looking at a Uyghur activist’s computer.” It was conducted.”
“Before the session began, large crowds of pro-China students and Chinese government-organized NGOs were seen who were sent to overcrowd the venue to restrict the access of genuine human rights representatives.” she explained. “The mission of these operatives is clearly to limit civil society participation, and it took persistent efforts with the UN Secretariat to secure access to halls where there was clearly more free space. .”
Prime Minister Abbas concluded that China “certainly succeeded in shielding its heinous crimes from scrutiny” through insidious tactics.
