BREAKING: The @UN General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the world organisation’s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. In favour: 93 Against: 24 Abstained: 58 pic.twitter.com/oYwbryFWc8
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@khodorkovsky_en) April 7, 2022
The word is “suspend” not “expel” or “remove” so I assume that means it’s temporary, but anyway, there it is. Of course other flagrant rights-violators remain.
The UN General Assembly has suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council after evidence of atrocities in its invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/rE5b7rXh1h
EARLIER: Ukraine's President Zelenskiy called on Russians to protest against the war following the emergence of gruesome videos and photos of bodies from the Kyiv suburb, Bucha.
” Of course other flagrant rights-violators remain.”
Cf: the actions of the Saudi government in Yemen.