The UN human rights office had a practice of secretly handing over names of dissidents to the Chinese regime, revealed whistleblower Emma Reilly, allowing Beijing to know in advance which Uyghur and other activists were registered to attend sessions of the UN Human Rights Council—putting their lives in danger, as well as those of their family members living in China.
Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, and Chinese dissident Yang Jianli, a board member of UN Watch, were two of the names provided to the Chinese government by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) in 2012 and 2013, according to UN emails seen by the South China Morning Post. OHCHR spokesman Rupert Colville told the Post that the practice of revealing names of participants at its sessions to governments had “discontinued“ in 2015, and in any case, “care [was] taken to ensure that no action taken by OHCHR would endanger human rights activists.“ |