Human Rights Lawyer Emma Reilly reveals that the UN is actively sharing the names of Uyghur dissidents with the Chinese Government, telling Maajid Nawaz the actions of the UN here are 'criminal.'
@MaajidNawaz
Defunding UNRWA does not mean stopping aid to Palestinians as they suffer immensely and calls for a ceasefire go unheeded. It doesn't even mean stopping aid being delivered by
@UN
.
@WFP
is already in Gaza.
@UNOPS
is already in Gaza.
@UN
has rapid response capacity that can take
@LBC
@MaajidNawaz
For those asking for proof, pictures of that last Ethics finding in my case. It's in UN legalese, but the finding is clear -
@UN
cares about its relationship with China. I care about human rights:
2006:
@UN
starts secretly handing names of activists to
#China
.
2013: I find out and report it,
@UN
calls me a liar.
2017:
@UN
admits it's still policy in a press release.
2019:
@UN
admits it's still policy in court.
2021:
@UN
claims it stopped in 2015.
Still no investigation.
The
@UN
is investigating and planning to fire me for blowing the whistle to national govts on
@UN
giving names of their nationals to China, so China could target their families.
@UN
has *never* investigated those responsible or stopped handing over names. /1
UPDATE:
@UNHumanRights
managers emailed me telling me to shut up. They claim secretly giving names of human rights activists to the Chinese government is not dangerous. No response to public comments from
@Dolkun_Isa
@yangjianli001
and others they betrayed that it is.
One of the reasons
@UN
gave for firing me was that I told the truth to
@MaajidNawaz
a year ago.
My lack of "remorse" was an "aggravating factor."
So today I spoke to him again.
Any response,
@antonioguterres
?
'Complicity in genocide is not an employment issue.'
@EmmaReillyTweet
is a whistleblower who was sacked by the UN after revealing the leaking of Chinese dissidents' details to the Chinese government.
Watch her full interview with
@MaajidNawaz
here.
Just got the judgments in my
@UN
court cases.
The factual findings are damning to
@UN
:
- I accurately reported a dangerous policy of
@UNHumanRights
handing names of
#HRDs
to
#Beijing
;
- The
@UN
has conducted no investigation whatsoever of that policy, which began in 2006; /1
UPDATE: After midnight on a Friday night in the summer break,
@UN
has taken the first official step to fire me.
I'm accused of telling the truth to member states about
@UN
policy. And, when that failed, of publishing proof
@UNHumanRights
hands names to
#Beijing
.
I did my job by reporting that
@UN
was handing names to
#Beijing
.
I kept doing my job when
@UN
offered me money to shut up.
I chose to lose US$ 50 000 by refusing to resign so
@antonioguterres
had to fire me for "trying to change
@UN
policy."
Handing names to Beijing is policy.
UPDATE:
@antonioguterres
fired me for telling the truth about
@UNHumanRights
handing names of dissidents to
#Beijing
.
Every
@UN
employee who handed over names (and then "lost" the list) was promoted. No investigation was ever carried out.
I'm sorry I couldn't stop it. /1
.
@UN
says giving dissidents' names to
#China
is ok because politics trumps basic human rights principles. The
@UN
's internal appeals court ruled today that cannot be challenged. It is official - any
@UN
staff member can break rules for
#China
.
@antonioguterres
, this is your
@UN
.
.
@antonioguterres
on:
-
#Uyghurs
: (silence)
-
#Tibetans
: (silence)
-
#HRDs
working on China: (silence)
-
#XiJinping
: "Thank you very much for... your steadfast commitment to multilateralism, to international cooperation and to the
@UN
."
Believe him when he tells you who he is.
Good to see more reporting on the
@UN
and
#Beijing
's mutually convenient stalemate.
@antonioguterres
is the $ 20 million a year Belt and Road slush fund really worth closing your eyes to
#UyghurGenocide
?
That, not climate action, is your legacy.
The corrupt investigation must be the fastest in
@UN
history. Remember the people caught on tape having sex in a UN vehicle? Still employed. Everyone who gave names to China? Promoted. Whistleblowers? Another story.
@whistleblowing
@GovAcctProj
@BMcGleenon
@RepMcGovern
.
@UNHumanRights
Office has secretly provided Beijing with names of
#Uyghurs
,
#Tibetans
and dissidents who contact
@UN
for support since 2006.
15 YEARS. And every
@UN
manager stayed silent.
@antonioguterres
why do you refuse to investigate? Is China's vote really worth it?
@lemondefr
Mise ร jour: J'ai รฉtรฉ licenciรฉe cette nuit pour avoir osรฉ dire la vรฉritรฉ en public.
L'ONU prรฉfรจre donner les noms de dissidents au gouvernement chinois et se faire "voler" les dossiers en secret.
Crimes vary widely, but criminal cover-ups look alike.
In 2013, I reported
@UN
handing names of dissidents to Beijing.
Last week, I was accidentally served a glass of bleach in a Paris cafรฉ and took a gulp (I'm out of hospital and fine now).
The
@UN
charges against me:
- revealing that
@UNHumanRights
hands names of human rights activists to
#Beijing
- trying to change that policy
"Guilty" and proud of it,
@antonioguterres
.
People deserve to know when
@UNHumanRights
deliberately endangers them and their families.
No mention of genocide, no attempt to analyse if the treatment of Uyghurs meets the criteria. One mention in the body of the text of possible crimes against humanity (para. 148).
Read para. 43 and remind me again why
@mbachelet
visited China?
Very, very weak recommendations.
2006:
@UN
starts secretly giving names of activists to China
2007:
2008:
2009:
2010:
2011:
2012:
2013: I find out and report it
2014: I report
2015: "
2016: "
2017:
@UN
admits it publicly
2018:
@UN
denies it publicly
2019:
@UN
defends it in court
@antonioguterres
time to stop.
Firing me will not silence me. Quite the opposite.
All I ever asked is that
@UN
change its policy of handing names to
#Beijing
and hold people accountable.
'The UN has never investigated this, in court the UN admits that it still does this'
Human rights lawyer and UN whistleblower Emma Reilly reacts to the UN sharing names of Chinese dissidents with Beijing after being sacked.
How does
@UN
complicity in genocide happen?
Let me show you.
Day 1: 28 Jan 2013
A colleague received the email below from the Chinese delegation. I had just taken over NGO liaison, so she forwarded it to me.
Its contents are shocking. /1
The speech the
@UN
went to extraordinary lengths to stop me from giving.
The Chinese delegation proved my point by trying to shut down
@Dolkun_Isa
only minutes later.
@volker_turk
, any possible doubts you had I am telling the truth must now be gone. I'm in Geneva. Let's meet.
Today marks one year since I was fired from
@UNHumanRights
for blowing the whistle on the policy of handing names of dissidents to
#Beijing
.
It has been one month since
@volker_turk
took office.
He refuses to investigate.
He knows I'm telling the truth, he just doesn't care.
@ministerBlok
you defamed me to the Dutch parliament. You said you would follow my case. So far,
@UN
fired the judge with no notice, refused to protect me when recognised as a whistleblower, and is now going to fire me for taking you to court.
@PieterOmtzigt
So far, to shut me up,
@UN
has:
- defamed me in a press release
- fired a judge to stop him ruling in my favour
- sent armed Swiss police to invade my home
- shut down audit of UN whistleblower policy
- ignored official recommendations for my protection
- fired me
It won't work
I reported
@UN
complicity in
#UyghurGenocide
.
The
@UN
response was to defame me and deny the clear, written evidence.
NGOs reported
@UN
complicity in the Hamas attacks.
The
@UN
response - for months - was to defame the NGO and deny the clear, written evidence.
The UN response
.
@UNHumanRights
still claims a right to lie. So, here's the truth
@hrw
@AmnestyEU
@UNWatch
@ISHRglobal
,
@WIN
. This is a quote from the final Ethics findings: "the management was naturally and perhaps primarily interested in good relations with the member state (China);" /1
.
@UN
has lied and lied about its policy of handing names to
#Beijing
.
@UN
spokespeople have defamed me for doing my job and reporting it.
I have evidence, and I'm making some public on
The UN needs reform.
@antonioguterres
has shown he won't deliver it.
"Now that
@UN
has officially recognised... that the CCP carries out 'reprisals against Uyghurs... and their family members..', their continued smear campaign against [me] and refusal to condemn the policy [I] exposed is an increasingly untenable position."
Here is the charge sheet.
@UN
accuses me of:
- reporting to member states
@UNHumanRights
secret policy of handing names of dissidents to
#Beijing
- publicly reporting it when member states failed to act.
I am not accused of lying.
@UN
just wants to hand over names in secret.
The US, Canada, Britain, Italy, Finland and Australia urgently need to ensure any investigation is referred *outside* the UN itself.
Internal investigators will find exactly what
@antonioguterres
tells them to find, and ignore all other evidence.
I have the receipts to prove
BREAKING: ๐ฌ๐ง Britain ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland & ๐ฆ๐บ Australia have now joined ๐บ๐ธ U.S. & ๐จ๐ฆ Canada in freezing funding for UNRWA after its employees were implicated in the Hamas massacre of October 7th.
But the U.N. knew all along.
We brought the receipts:
For those asking why
@UN
is silent: Because
@UNHumanRights
has had nine different, on-the-record stories about handing names to China. So, whatever they say, I have video, audio or documentary evidence of them saying the opposite. I have only one version - the truth.
@Kawuma
@UN
@WFP
@UNOPS
Several donors did in fact suspend funding at the time (see link below re. EU). It's the only thing that ever works to make UN agencies at least pretend to hold staff accountable. Part of why a genuinely independent investigation and ethics system would be helpful - investigation
.
@UN
threatened me again today. I was told to stop directly emailing the Secretary-General.
@antonioguterres
I will continue to speak up until you stop endangering
#Uyghur
,
#Tibetan
and other human rights activists. It is your responsibility.
Thanks to
@parlabest
for having me.
I am willing to lose my job in order to stop
@UNHumanRights
deliberately endangering human rights activists by handing their names to China without their knowledge or consent. I will not, however, accept being fired because fact-checkers at
@CheckNewsfr
do not check facts. /1
The person who ordered the investigation (
@UN
's head of management) is *supposed* to be under investigation for retaliating against me.
@antonioguterres
, why did you refuse your own Ethics Office saying the investigation into the retaliators should be referred externally? /3 of 3
I have only ever asked
@UN
for three things:
1. Stop handing names to China
2. Investigate and hold accountable
@UN
staff who did (since 2006!)
3. Stop punishing me for reporting it.
The UN will fire me for
#whistleblowing
and still hands over names. /1
2006:
@UN
starts secretly giving
#Beijing
names of dissidents.
2013: I find out and report it.
2017: UN defends policy in press release.
2019: UN defends policy in court.
2021: UN moves to fire me.
@antonioguterres
the problem is the policy, not that I stood up.
Investigate.
.
@UN
is silent. Yet
@UN
argued loudly for four days in public court hearings that giving names of human rights activists planning to speak out to China - and only to China - is ok. There needs to be a credible, independent investigation. This needs to stop.
@MaajidNawaz
BREAKING:
@antonioguterres
'
@UN
is so committed to handing names of dissidents to
#Beijing
that he just unilaterally declared the review that found me to be a whistleblower "defective." No explanation provided, just blatant breach of rules in order to fire me.
@UNWatch
@USUN
Every
@UN
staffer who secretly handed names of human rights activists to Beijing since 2006 has been promoted. They still handle all NGO liaison.
No investigation. UN didn't even tell the activists. Managers went straight for a cover up.
@antonioguterres
this is your
@UN
.
Millions of Uyghurs are being detained in the largest network of concentration camps since the Holocaust, on your watch. You have said nothing.
Instead, you went to court to defend a policy of handing names of Uyghurs to Beijing.
#UyghurGenocide
I was honoured to mark the anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz with Holocaust survivors & members of the
@PESynagogue
.
Liberation ended the Holocaust, but it was just the beginning of our work to ensure such crimes never happen again.
2006:
@UN
starts handing names to China.
2007: UN continues
2008: UN continues
2009: UN continues
2010: UN continues
2011: UN continues
2012: UN continues
2013: I find out and report it. UN continues
2014: I continue to report. UN continues to give names...
The
@UN
silence in the face of
#UyghurGenocide
is a disgrace.
But people are not powerless.
People - not governments - led the boycott that eventually ended Apartheid.
#BoycottChina
.
Things
@UN
will not investigate:
-
@UN
handing names to China
-
@UN
firing a judge to cover it up
-
@UN
lying to press
-
@UN
admitting whistleblower policy just to "get the Americans off the UN's back"
- harassment by senior staff
Things
@UN
will "investigate":
- whistleblowers
I will be fired for telling US, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Canadian, Australian, Swiss, UK govts that
@UNHumanRights
secretly handed names of their citizens to
#Beijing
.
There has never been any investigation of policy, in place since 2006.
I was fired for trying to change a "policy of
@antonioguterres
."
I was not accused of misrepresenting the policy, just of reporting it.
@UNHumanRights
hands names of
#Uyghurs
to Beijing.
@UN
is complicit in the crimes detailed in its report.
@USUN
,
@SecBlinken
, time to act.
Pics of original document here, for avoidance of doubt (the Member State is China, and I'm the Complainant). As the judge in my case said before he was removed without notice, confidentiality exists to protect me from the
@UN
, not
@UN
from its own policies. /5
.
@UN
argues in court I am "unreasonable" to think secretly handing names of dissidents to
#Beijing
could be dangerous.
@antonioguterres
read this and tell me how my reasoning is flawed.
@USUN
, any views? US gave Rebiya Kadeer protection, why is
@UN
placing her family in danger?
As
@UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights,
@mbachelet
has:
- said nothing about any human rights abuse by
#Beijing
;
- agreed with
#Beijing
never to meet any dissident;
- continued to tell
#Beijing
which dissidents will attend UN meetings, and defended that policy in court. /1
The
@UN
@UNHumanRights
Office lied about endangering Chinese human rights defenders, retaliated against me for reporting it, and even removed an independent judge to prevent him revealing it. But I will tell the truth.
I did speak up,
@antonioguterres
. When your staff
@UNHumanRights
decided
#Uyghur
lives did not matter and could be sacrificed to avoid the inconvenience of China raising a point of order in a meeting, I reported it.
To you.
You fired me and kept the policy in place.
Racism, intolerance & discrimination tear at the fabric of our societies, harming all of us.
But there is something every one of us can do to help
#FightRacism
:
Speak up.
A better world starts with all of us.
.
@UN
claims I'm not a whistleblower because I'm "unreasonable" to think human rights and UN rules should apply to China. I have called for an independent investigation of
@UNHumanRights
, failing which
@StateDept
should apply US law and withhold funding.
Just watched
@BBCNewsnight
. The
@UN
says I was never recognised as a whistleblower.
So, would
@antonioguterres
like to explain this document that explicitly recognised me as a whistleblower and warned I would be fired if he didn't act?
Full doc here:
The judgment in my case proves
@UN
does not have
#whistleblower
protection.
The judge agrees I reported life-threatening misconduct, which
@UN
has refused to investigate for a decade.
My choices were:
1. Say nothing;
2. Go public and try to keep people safe.
I chose option 2.
My email to
@antonioguterres
and
@mbachelet
. It is well past time to investigate complicity in international crimes.
I no longer have immunity. I am now naming names, because truth is a defence to defamation. Sue me.
And, yes,
@UN
really did use surveymonkey for the
@UN_HRC
.
.
@UNHumanRights
will not disclose the terms of
@mbachelet
's China visit because they do not meet the terms
@UN
claimed were a minimum.
@mbachelet
will not meet Uyghurs, Tibetans, HRDs prior to visit because Beijing told her not to.
No High Commissioner has.
It's
@UN
policy.
The U.N. fired Emma Reilly after she tried to stop them handing over names of dissidents to the Chinese regime. Theyโre trying to silence her.
But I know Emma. Sheโs like Obi Wan to Darth Vader: โIf you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.โ
So humbled to meet survivors of China's concentration camps today.
So angry that
@mbachelet
refused to meet them even when they stood outside her office for a week, because
#Beijing
told her not to.
Michelle, publish the report or resign.
@SpeakerPelosi
@RepMcGovern
This is a disgrace.
@mbachelet
is regularly thanked by
#Beijing
for her agreement never to meet
#Uyghurs
,
#Tibetans
and other activists.
When they interact with
@UN
human rights mechanisms, her office lets China know so their families can be targeted. /1
Lots of
@antonioguterres
' senior managers in
@UN
will be tweeting today about prevention of genocide. Do post this video underneath. The judge is correct that the UN lacks the courage to act on genocide by a powerful member state.
Worse,
@UN
hands names of
#Uyghurs
to
#Beijing
.
.
@antonioguterres
knows I am telling the truth.
He knows
@UNHumanRights
hands names to
#Beijing
.
He knows I'm a
#whistleblower
who should have been protected.
He just doesn't care, because the "people in charge" (his words) wanted me to shut up.
I took a witness to our meeting:
Thanks again to
@CommonsForeign
for the chance to give evidence.
A
@UN
that respects its founding principles has never seemed more vital.
We'll only get that UN if brave politicians like
@aliciakearns
and her colleagues on the Committee keep asking questions and insisting on
Yesterday we heard from Emma Reilly, former employee of the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights and
@UN
whisteblower.
Watch the full session back here:
Yesterday, the
@UN
reiterated in writing that handing names of dissidents to Beijing is policy, and that the
@UN
may secretly sacrifice their human rights for the sake of a better relationship with
#Beijing
.
Which part of the Charter says cosy up to autocrats,
@antonioguterres
?
The report editing going this late is not a good sign - it means a lot of Beijing's edits are going in. The standard practice is to include comments from the govt in an annex, NOT to change the report.
Standard practices don't apply to Beijing in
@mbachelet
's
@UNHumanRights
.
Jan 8:
@UN
puts me under investigation for telling govts they hand names of dissidents to China.
Jan 11: I take Dutch govt to court for repeating
@UN
lies.
Jan 12: I send
@UN
list of rules they are breaking.
Silence.
@UN
am I still being investigated for being ethical? Yes or no?
Me to
@UN
yesterday: I am standing for Secretary-General as a protest candidate to try to force debate about corruption of the UN's noble purpose.
@UN
today: We are forcibly transferring you (again) to yet another post you are not qualified for.
Today marks eight years since I found out about and reported
@UNHumanRights
secretly handing names of
#Uyghur
,
#Tibetan
and other activists to China.
@UN
has lied to governments, to the press, to the activists themselves.
@antonioguterres
investigate and stop complicity. /1
The
@UN
's standard approach to accountability.
Passing names to authoritarian rรฉgimes, rape of aid beneficiaries, and hiring terrorists are not an inevitable part of humanitarian work - they are actions, and they are entirely preventable.
Accountability systems work because
Meanwhile, the UN just now (10:01 am) data dumped more of the rape charges about UN Peacekeepers (from Pakistan and Cameroon) on its website. None of the reporters UN lets it ask about this; Inner City Press asks in writing, no answers from
@UN_Spokesperson
Finally member states start to realise that the
@UN
's corrupt, internal "investigation" mechanisms are not fit for purpose.
UNRWA and
@WIPO
are the only two agencies internally considered more corrupt than
@UNHumanRights
.
It is beyond time to investigate all three.
The EU has requested that
@UNRWA
agree to an audit by ๐ช๐บ appointed external experts following the launch of an internal investigation into a number of employees suspected of having taken part in October 7 attacks against Israel.
It is unacceptable that
@UNHumanRights
is silent about
#UyghurGenocide
.
It is unacceptable that
@mbachelet
refuses to publish her report on the genocide.
It is unacceptable that she lies about her policy of giving names to China.
It is unacceptable that public money funds this
Reminder:
@UN
is trying to fire me (or send me to DRC?) for blowing the whistle on its policy of handing activists' names to
#China
. It's much easier to fire someone for lying than
#whistleblowing
. Their own charge sheet reveals the truth: handing over names is still policy.
Can anyone name me something good
@mbachelet
has done as High Commissioner for Human Rights? She's silent on
#UyghurGenocide
, but what exactly *is* she doing for $35,000 a month tax free?
@KuzzatAltay
@LBC
@MaajidNawaz
@UN
I am so sorry for what is happening to your family and so many other families, and I am so sorry that
@UN
continues to argue that it has a right to betray Uyghurs, Tibetans and others by handing their names to the Chinese government. This must stop
@antonioguterres
I am making a criminal complaint against
@UN
staff who faked an emergency to send armed police to my home.
@UN
will not let me work until those same individuals say so...
@antonioguterres
debate your opponents for
#SG
instead of sending armed police. What are you so afraid of?
The
@UN
dismissed me for:
1. Trying to change
@antonioguterres
' policy of handing names to
#Beijing
.
2. Accurately reporting that policy to the US Congress when
@UN
wouldn't change it.
The
@UN
thinks its largest donor has no right to know its policies.
Do you agree
@ABlinken
?