GENEVA-- Chinese-Canadian human rights activist, actress and beauty queen Anastasia Lin will testify before the United Nations Human Rights Council this afternoon in Geneva. To request an interview, send email to: asia@unwatch.org.
Lin was famously barred from China when she went to represent Canada at the 2015 Miss World competition. Her struggle was profiled in the New York Times and reported worldwide.
Today, Lin’s testimony will address the situation of human rights in China, whose government was recently reelected to the 47-nation body.
Lin was invited to speak by the independent non-governmental human rights group UN Watch