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UN Accused of Informing on Activists

June 8, 2020;

The United Nations (UN) has been accused of supplying details of rights activists “from Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang to Chinese diplomats via email request”. Human rights lawyer, Emma Reilly, has described one instance during her time working with the UN’s Human Rights Office, where officials informed China “that the wife of detained civil rights lawyer would be attending a UN meeting, ‘within four hours’ of Beijing’s demand”.

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