ctor of Human Rights Watch, called the failed attempt “a stunning rebuke to Saudi Arabia under Mohammed bin Salman”. US intelligence agencies have said that the crown prince, known as MBS, was responsible for Khashoggi’s murder.
MBS is also responsible for Saudi Arabia’s decision to enter the grinding war in Yemen.
“Only country not elected, shunned by a majority of the UN,” Mr Stagno wrote. “The kingdom reaped what it deserves for its serious violations of human rights and war crimes abroad.”
Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now, which was founded by Khashoggi, said that Saudi Arabia had become a global pariah.
China was elected with 139 votes, a fall from the 180 it received the last time it stood in 2016. “Shows more states are disturbed by China’s abysmal rights record,” tweeted Louis Charbonneau, the UN director at Human Rights Watch.
Of course Saudi Arabia doesn't deserve a place on the UN human rights council, but China deserves it even less. It seems that the presence of a big name – Jamal Khashoggi – counts for more than the million Uighurs in the camps, or the Tibetans and Mongolians seeing their cultures being squeezed to death by the Han embrace, or the Hong Kong repression, or the threats to Taiwan…
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