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At the United Nations Human Rights Council, authoritarian regimes including China, Russia, Cuba, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey lavish praise on the human rights record of the Maldives during its Universal Periodic Review.
UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer responds by exposing the reality: severe restrictions on freedom of religion, discrimination against women, harassment of journalists, credible concerns over elections, and the persecution of those who leave Islam.
"The truth is the opposite."
Delivered at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.