{"id":1051228,"date":"2021-11-24T08:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1051228"},"modified":"2021-11-24T08:58:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:58:50","slug":"whistleblower-says-u-n-fired-her-after-revealing-human-rights-council-collusion-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-says-u-n-fired-her-after-revealing-human-rights-council-collusion-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower Says U.N. Fired Her After Revealing Human Rights Council Collusion with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhistleblower-says-u-n-fired-her-after-revealing-human-rights-council-collusion-with-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1051228&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-490417466-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Whistleblower Emma Reilly said on Tuesday the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) terminated her employment less than 24 hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/international\/article\/2021\/11\/09\/emma-reilly-une-lanceuse-d-alerte-seule-contre-les-nations-unies_6101442_3210.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving<\/a> an interview to France\u2019s <\/span><i><span>Le Monde<\/span><\/i>&nbsp;<span>in which she revealed U.N. employees provided the brutal Chinese government with the names of Uyghur dissidents who planned to testify against Beijing\u2019s human rights abuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Reilly, the Chinese government was then able to pressure these dissidents out of testifying by threatening, arresting, and torturing their family members. One of the dissidents identified to China by the U.N. reportedly died in detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Reilly, a trained human rights lawyer with dual British-Irish citizenship, told <\/span><i><span>Le Monde <\/span><\/i><span>she went to work for the U.N. human rights office about ten years ago. In 2013, she received an email from Chinese diplomats in Geneva asking UNHCR to do Beijing a \u201cfavor\u201d by confirming personal information about \u201canti-government Chinese separatists\u201d who were petitioning to address the U.N.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The list of 13 names forwarded to Reilly and other U.N. staffers included famed blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, who escaped to the United States and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/08\/27\/chinese-media-inviting-blind-activist-to-rnc-shows-trump-turned-party-into-street-gang\/\"><span>remains<\/span><\/a><span> an indomitable critic of the Chinese government; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofdemocracy.org\/articles\/30-years-after-tiananmen-the-meaning-of-june-4th\/\"><span>Wang Dan<\/span><\/a><span>, a student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square movement; and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/05\/19\/report-chinas-destruction-uyghur-people-first-technology-enabled-genocide\/\"><span>Dolkun Issa<\/span><\/a><span>, a prominent Uyghur activist and current president of the World Uyghur Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reilly told <\/span><i><span>Le Monde <\/span><\/i><span>the Chinese government has made similar requests for information about Uyghurs and other dissidents scheduled to address UNHCR over the years \u2013 and the U.N. human rights office routinely gives China the information it wants, even though the U.N.\u2019s rules forbid such collusion.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Reilly said she personally objected to giving China information about dissidents, but her objections were overruled by her superiors, who felt refusing the demands would \u201cexacerbate the Chinese mistrust against us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/united-nations-giving-names-uyghur-dissidents-china-opinion-1649060\"><i><span>Newsweek<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>noted that various U.N. officials have alternately confirmed this \u201cindefensible practice\u201d and denied it. In 2017, for example, UNHCR officials admitted they were giving the names of Uyghur activists to China, but then insisted they would never do such a thing only a month later, sneering that allegations to the contrary were \u201cextreme right-wing\u201d propaganda \u2013 and then admitted they were doing it again, five months later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reilly told <\/span><i><span>Le Monde <\/span><\/i><span>her career has suffered tremendously because she clashed with her superiors over appeasing China and she fully expected to suffer reprisals for giving her interview, even though she was officially granted whistleblower protection by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In July 2020, Reilly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/un-investigator-americans-whistleblower\"><span>exposed<\/span><\/a><span> the transcript of an undercover recording that caught U.N. internal investigators treating whistleblower complaints like a joke and blowing off complaints of retaliation against staffers who spoke up. Reilly sent the transcript to then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and advised the Trump administration to cut U.N. funding by 15 percent for failure to comply with whistleblower protection policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI am collateral damage, and senior managers are now apparently so utterly devoid of ethics that they genuinely do not understand why I would prioritize the lives of human beings over my pay and benefits,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/whistleblower-claims-un-is-working-with-china-as-she-faces-losing-her-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <\/a><\/span><span>Fox News<\/span><span> in June 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Reilly said she was swiftly fired after her interview with <\/span><i><span>Le Monde <\/span><\/i><span>at the end of October, among other reasons because she was talking to media outlets like Fox News and communicating improperly with officials of the United States and other U.N. member nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe U.N. accuses me only of disobeying an order to be silent. I am not accused of lying. I had a duty as a human being, let alone as a Human Rights Officer, to tell the press when telling my superiors and governments had no impact. To be silent in the face of genocide is to stand with the oppressor. I will leave that to the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/un-whistleblower-fired-china-blackburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <\/a><\/span><span>Fox News<\/span><span> on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Reilly said she was disappointed the U.S., British, and Irish governments did not get involved in her case, even after she told them how UNHCR was colluding with China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll any government ever did was simply ask U.N. managers about their relationship with China and note down the answer. The U.N. first told them no names of dissidents were ever handed over, then that it was ongoing, then that it had stopped years previously. No government ever even challenged the inconsistency, let alone challenging the U.N. with the evidence I gave them that handing names to China is still policy,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDemocracies sit by and do nothing, claiming they need to respect an independence of the U.N. that simply does not exist,\u201d she said, directly accusing China of subverting and dominating the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretary-General are silent on the largest network of concentration camps since the Nazis, it\u2019s not because they are working on back-room diplomacy. It\u2019s because China has been the new paymaster for some time,\u201d she charged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDemocracies need to step up and make the U.N. respect its own charter before it is too late. Whistleblowers are their only source of real information, and who will dare speak up now?\u201d she asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some reports indicate U.N. officials are suddenly insisting Reilly did <\/span><span>not <\/span><span>have whistleblower protection, even though United Nations documents from 2020 explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/whistleblowingnetwork.org\/News-Events\/News\/News-Archive\/Civil-Society-Statement-on-the-firing-of-UN-human\">recommended<\/a> she should be \u201cprotected from any adverse personnel action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reilly used her Twitter account to promise she would continue her crusade for reform and accountability at the United Nations. On Tuesday, she noted she was treated more harshly than U.N. employees embroiled in massive corruption and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/29\/report-e-u-suspends-w-h-o-funding-after-congo-sex-abuse-scandal\/\">sexual abuse scandals<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.308157099698\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN<\/a> publishes what staff it fires did. In past decade, they committed:<br \/>\u2013 assault<br \/>\u2013 rape, sexual assault<br \/>\u2013 crimes under local law<br \/>\u2013 theft or fraud<br \/>\u2013 corruption, including working for govt.<\/p>\n<p>Me? fired for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/whistleblowing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#whistleblowing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Men filmed having sex in a UN vehicle? Sill employed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emma Reilly (@EmmaReillyTweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaReillyTweet\/status\/1463195771885531138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Reilly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaReillyTweet\/status\/1463118394128052224\"><span>added<\/span><\/a><span> that some of the people ratted out to China by U.N. employees are American citizens, and offered to testify before Congress on the subject. According to Fox News, her allegations have captured the attention of Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), a determined critic of China\u2019s influence over the United Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe international community can no longer turn a blind eye to Beijing\u2019s egregious abuse. No whistleblower should be fired for exposing how the U.N. is aiding Communist China\u2019s exploitation and abuse of the Muslim Uyghurs,\u201d Blackburn said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaReillyTweet\/status\/1462852397500448773\"><span>combative email<\/span><\/a><span> to Guterres and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet on Monday, Reilly invited U.N. officials to sue her if they think they can prove anything she told <\/span><i><span>Le Monde <\/span><\/i><span>is false.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She threw in some digs at the United Nations for its lamentable data security practices, such as using the Survey Monkey database to store the names of dissidents who have good reason to fear their lives are in danger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEven when I gave you the name of a person on China\u2019s list who subsequently returned to China and died in a concentration camp, you still refused to meet me. I am disappointed that all it took for you to ignore complicity in genocide was sexist rumors that I am crazy, spread by the man I reported, with whom you have been all too happy to meet regularly,\u201d Reilly told Guterres and Bachelet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistleblower Emma Reilly said on Tuesday the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) terminated her employment less than 24 hours after giving an interview to France\u2019s Le Monde\u00a0in which she &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}