Dissidents from around the world gathered in Geneva, Switzerland to tell the story of their survival and escape from the authoritarian regime. In just a few days, UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) will hold its 58th session in the same city.
Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN surveillance, set a record directly at the UN University in his opening speech at the Human Rights and Democracy Summit in Geneva.
“You know, when most people hear the term ‘United Nations Commission on Human Rights’, the men they imagine in their minds wearing long white beards, white robes, and walking along Mount Olympus, will Their decisions are based on facts, logic and morality, and in fact, nothing goes further than facts,” Neuer said.
“Sitting at the table of the UN Human Rights Commission across the street, not Aristotle, Socrates or Plato, but many of the worst human rights abusers in the world. They serve as false badges of international legitimacy as their membership , to achieve a record of non-fine abuse against them.”
Hillel Neuer, executive director of the United Nations, introduced the 2025 Geneva Human Rights and Democracy Summit.
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While several dissidents have the opportunity to tell their stories, many have not. Friends and family of dissidents and activists spoke, and local students told stories of those absent. The use of empty chairs on the top of the mountain represents absent dissidents.
The United Nations agency has 47 member states serving for three years at a time. Dissidents from four current UNU member states – Sudan, Cuba, Vietnam And China – Tells the tragic story of what Neuer calls “the worst abuser in the world.”
Photo of Dr. Binchon, the detained father of Time King, in China at the Geneva Human Rights and Democracy Summit in 2025.
U.S.-based human rights lawyer Time Wang talks about his father’s imprisonment in China. Dr. Wang Bingzhang was kidnapped by Chinese authorities in 2002 and is the person with the longest number of Chinese political politicians. To this day, he is still in a separate prison.
Additionally, Sebastien Lai, son of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, talked about his father’s detention by Chinese authorities, which began in 2020. Apple Daily is the largest newspaper in Hong Kong until it was forcibly closed in 2021. Jimmy Lai could be sentenced to life imprisonment if convicted. He is currently in a separate jail and has been appealed several times.
Sebastien Lai posted a photo of his father, Jimmy Lai, at the Geneva Summit on Rights and Democracy in 2025.
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The summit also features dissidents from previous member states, including Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Russia.
Vladimir Kara-Murza said at the summit: “When good people in democratic countries join their efforts, when they are together, when they work together, they are stronger than dictatorship. ”
Russian pro-democracy activist Kara-Murza was sentenced to jail in April 2022 for opposing the Ukrainian war. He was released in August 2024. Before his recent imprisonment, Kara-Murza made two attempts to get poisoned at Russian hands.
Human rights activists and outspoken critics of the Russian president Vladimir PutinGarry Kas has little confidence in the United Nations. He asserted that “the decay is so deep” that the international community is “close to the question of replacing institutions, not just reforming it.”
In his keynote speech, Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi asked the World Act to defeat the Islamic Republic regime.
“What the Islamic Republic causes can be resolved through dismissal,” Palawi said.
Palawi also spoke about the struggle for freedom for Iranian women, noting that it exceeded the demands of the hijack. Their fight, he said, “is not about a piece of cloth. It’s about restoring equality and the country.”
Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi takes the stage at the 2025 Geneva Human Rights and Democracy Summit.
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UNHRC did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
and the 58th session UNHRC A few days away, its website lists some topics of discussion. China, Sudan, Cuba, Vietnam and other members will have the opportunity to weigh the themes of “prevention and prevention of genocide,” “the death penalty issue” and “eliminate all forms of racial discrimination”.
President Donald Trump Recently, he pulled the United States from the United Nations University (UNHRC), and he did it in his first term. Trump expressed a similar view to Neuer in his 2025 executive order, saying: “United Nations University protects human rights abusers by allowing them to use organizations to protect themselves from censorship.”
