GENEVA, June 8, 2023 — UN Watch today sent an observer to the UN’s internal court to hear the evidence of whistleblower Emma Reilly.
The legal arguments were closed to the public, but it was shocking that, as Ms. Reilly presented apparently undisputed evidence of the UN passing names of human rights activists to China, it was the judge and not the UN’s lawyer who kept interrupting her, claiming this was irrelevant.
UN Watch asked Ms. Reilly about this after the hearing. “My entire defense is that because there is no dispute in court that the UN has an ongoing policy of handing names of activists to China on request, and the UN has repeatedly lied about that policy in public and to member states, I had a legal obligation to report the ongoing danger to people who come to the UN to testify about China’s human rights abuses,” said Reilly, who is a human rights lawyer.
“The judge essentially tried to stop my lawyer from even presenting the defense that is laid out in all of the legal documents. Frankly, she acted as counsel for the UN, not an independent arbiter of the compliance of their actions with their own rules and those set by member states. I knew the UNDT is biased, but that was extreme even by their low standards.”
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