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Mum on China ‘Genocide,’ UN Human Rights Chief Hears Assange Pleas

Michelle Bachelet, whose tenure in the UN system ends next week, hosts the Wikileaks founder’s wife and lawyers at her Geneva office.

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The UN commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, at Geneva June 13, 2022. Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP
BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

The outgoing United Nations human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, is leaving with a bang, hosting critics of America’s justice system after declining comment on Communist China’s genocidal record. 

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BENNY AVNI
BENNY AVNI

Benny Avni is a columnist who has published in the New York Post, WSJOpinion, The Daily Beast, Newsweek, Israel Radio, Ha’Aretz, and others. Once New York Sun, always New York Sun.

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