Michael link thank you so much michel for coming on im going to say that when you were appointed special rapporteur you probably didnt think you were going to be thinking of the illegal occupation in the context of a Global Pandemic how about is coronavirus in the occupied territories that alone gaza. Look at the very beginning it appeared opin when the crown of iris 1st hit in march it appeared that the the occupy palestinian territories were going to actually weather this extremely rather well in part thats because of a negative situation other such limited freedom of mobility. And movement with respect to other gaza strip in particular and that many you know a huge number of the palestinian population in the west bank is also extremely limited freedom of movement around behind the the wall and as really checkpoints well whats happened with respect to the 2nd wave that were experiencing now is that cases both in gaza the west bank and including East Jerusalem are rising exponentially
Next, look at human rights guss against muslim groups in northwest china. This Panel Includes a journalist who reported on the Chinese Governments establishment of reEducation Centers, targeting muslim my importants and a human rights activist. Welcome to the Hudson Institute, im nina shea, and i want to wish everyone happy holidays holidays and im also want to draw your attention to the crisis in china against the us uyghur population the. One of the worst relation rights and percent accuse situations of our day and age. It is a crisis of religious persecution and Human Rights Violations of epic proportions. And will be hearing more pout that through the session today. All people should be concerned for china as a rising power, aimed to make this a model, not only for other groups within its borders but is exporting this model. It is of deep concern to me as someone who monitors freedom around the world, and i know it is to you here in this room in the audience, and it is my deep priv
Human rights watch is research regarding the activities of businesses and settlements and the court just in april affirmed that the deportation was legally valid and gave me 2 weeks to leave and weve now appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court i know that the are now waiting this is Supreme Courts decision on whether or not there should be allowed to stand work within the country but it comes at a time when politically israelis say quite at a crossroads especially considering Benjamin Netanyahu is future political future do you think this Political Uncertainty in israel will have any bearing on the case absolutely i mean i think its not a coincidence that the Supreme Court a scheduled our hearing for november 11th these really israelis will go to elections on september 17th the process to form a government usually takes around 6 weeks so by the time were sitting in the courtroom will likely have unless theres some hiccups like law. Time with Coalition Negotiations a new Israeli Governmen
Remarkable what got you in trouble with the israeli leadership Israeli Government going back several years now has been restricting Human Rights Watch as access to both israel and the west bank it began actually several years ago in february of 2017 when the Israeli Government denied Human Rights Watch a permit to have a foreign employee at the time they allege that Human Rights Watch was engaged in propaganda for palestinians we went public it generated pressure the government relented and then last year the government accused me as the israel palestine director of Human Rights Watch of promoting boycotts in israel we sued a court froze the deportation order and in court the government cited as evidence Human Rights Watch is research regarding the activities of businesses in settlements and the court just in april affirmed that the deportation was legally valid and gave me 2 weeks to leave and weve now appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court i know that the are now waiting this is Supre
Weeks that they believe that the body was either immersed into acid or destroyed in an oven that was built inside the consuls president so these questions they will have to be one of the key problems between saudi arabia and turkey is took insisting on who gave the order to kill you because from a turkish perspective they believe this is someone who is really the loans of the of the of the saudis chain of command let me ask you about a few things that are mentioned in the report now hashim this special rapporteur war found that both the investigation of requests conducted by saudi arabia and turkey also failed she said to meet International Standards regarding the investigation into unlawful deaths so she is somewhat pointing a finger here at turkey saying that they didnt do the investigation correctly what access what sort of access did the terrorists have to the consulate what sort of evidence did they come up with do we know that. Well basically when i was here she was denied access