Trending UN Watch tweets from October:
Iran cracks down on protestors; UN Watch accuses top UN official of smear campaign; UN Human Rights Council Elections
BREAKING: BBC Persian reports that Iranian sport climber Elnaz Rekabi has now gone missing. Yesterday she competed without the regime’s compulsory headscarf at the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s Asian Championships in Seoul. pic.twitter.com/6rpl7KaBP5
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2022
Friends of Elnaz Rekabi told the BBC they have not been able to contact her since last night. An informed source said that Ms. Rakabi’s passport and mobile phone were taken from her.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2022
The night manager at Seoul Garden Hotel told BBC Persian that the Iran team checked out earlier today. They are meant to return to Tehran on Wednesday. But a source has told BBC Persian that Elnaz’s passport and mobile phone have been confiscated. @MOFAkr_eng, where is she?
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 17, 2022
For God’s sake, the Iran regime cannot remain on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 14, 2022
Western democracies should announce the immediate expulsion of all Iran regime diplomats from their countries.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 15, 2022
🇮🇷 Iran regime assault on protesters:
244 killed
898 injured
5974 arrested🇺🇳 U.N. Human Rights Council reaction:
0 resolutions
0 emergency sessions
0 commission of inquiryEvery single Iranian girl in this video who pulled off her compulsory headscarf in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and shouted “Get lost, Basiji” deserves to be on the U.N. Women’s Rights Commission a billion times more than current member Ayatollah Khamenei. https://t.co/KkMWBEx9SW
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 5, 2022
Why, @NadaNashif?
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 14, 2022
برای تمام فالوورهای جدیدم از ایران ارزش قائل هستم.
ما با هم به نفرین این دیکتاتوری پایان خواهیم داد.
زن، زندگی، آزادی.- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 28, 2022
خبر خوب: اکنون پیش نویس قطعنامه اخراج جمهوری اسلامی از کمیسیون حقوق زنان سازمان ملل را ارائه کرده ایم! اکنون ما از ایالات متحده می خواهیم که آن را رسمی کند. #مهسا_امینی https://t.co/JAPe9meNZo
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 19, 2022
Meet Eric Tistounet. He runs the world’s top human rights body. He also runs a secret dirty tricks campaign to cook UN lists to prevent me from testifying, tells his UN staff to go to Internet cafés to smear me, and dreams of a frivolous Interpol warrant to bar me from the UN. /1 pic.twitter.com/QKWjGHDOIk
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 11, 2022
U.N. Human Rights Council members today include:
🇨🇺 Cuba
🇱🇾 Libya
🇶🇦 Qatar
🇨🇳 China
🇪🇷 Eritrea
🇸🇴 Somalia
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇻🇪 Venezuela
🇲🇷 MauritaniaJoining on January 1, 2023:
🇸🇩 Sudan
🇩🇿 Algeria
🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇧🇩 BangladeshI wish I were making this up. I’m not. This is real.
- Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 14, 2022
Liking, retweeting, following: UN Watch tweets were liked and shared by thousands around the world, including by opinion leaders and celebrities such as:
- Iranian women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad, Cuban human rights activist Rosa María Payá, Saudi dissident Raif Badawi, Zimbabwean pro-democracy activist Pastor Evan Mawarire, Feminist activist Dr. Leta Hong Fincher, Venezuela pro-democracy activist Juan Pablo García, Educator and political activist Bakhtawar B-Zardari, North Korean defector and human rights activist Yeonmi Park
- Ukrainian ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya
- Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro
- Former Canadian ambassador to the UN Louise Blais, senator Leo Housakos
- UK MP Tom Tugendhat, French senator Nathalie Goulet
- Dutch MP Gert-Jan Segers, New Zealand MP Golriz Ghahraman, Australian MP Dr. Monique Ryan
- Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel
- German politician and human rights defender Volker Beck, Swedish politician Anna Kinberg Batra, German politician Sawsan Chebli
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior advisor Saeed Ghasseminejad, president Clifford May & CEO Mark Dubowitz, Lawyers Without Borders president William Goldnadel, United Against Nuclear Iran Policy Director Jason Brodsky, Raoul Wallenburg Centre for Human Rights Founder Irwin Cotler, Stand With Us executive directer Michael Dickson
- Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, Entrepreneur Sankrant Sanu
- Miss Iraq Sarah Idan, Comedian Sophia Aram, Actress Tala Ashe, British television presenter Rachel Riley, Actor Pej Vahdat, Pianist Gabriela Montero, Philosopher Raphaël Enthoven, Australian writer Van Badham, Sports commentator Eddie Fleischman, Philanthropist Adam Milstein, Author and columnist Tavleen Singh, WatchYalla’s Hayvi Bouzo
Many journalists also liked or shared UN Watch’s tweets, including:
- CNN national security correspondent Kylie Atwood, anchor John Avlon, & contributor Frida Ghitis, BBC’s Kasra Naji, New York Times investigative reporter Mike Forsythe, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik
- Iranian journalist Fardad Farahzad, Voice of America producer Saman Arbabi, Investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel
- Toronto Sun columnists Lorrie Goldstein & Tarek Fatah
- Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi
- CBC News host Natasha Fatah
- The Jerusalem Post contributing editor Lahav Harkov
- Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek
- ABC Radio presenter Sabra Lane
