UN Human Rights Agency Passes Resolution to Strongly Condemn Death of African-American Man Enforced by Violent Law Enforcement
Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, June 19 (Reporter Nie Xiaoyang and Chen Junxia) The Human Rights Council of the United States passed a resolution on the 19th by consensus, expressing "strong condemnation" of the death of American African-American man George Freud after police violent law enforcement , Calling on relevant countries to take practical measures to promote and protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and people of African descent.
This newly adopted resolution was proposed by Burkina Faso and other countries and is entitled "Preventing the excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement personnel, and promoting and protecting the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and people of African descent."
The resolution said that while the UN Human Rights Council strongly condemned Freud’s death, it also condemned the ongoing racial discrimination and violence against Africans and people of African descent by the relevant law enforcement agencies exposed by the incident.
The resolution stated that the UN Human Rights Council was shocked by the rise of violent thinking based on racial or ethnic prejudice, such as violence, racial hatred, hate speech, hate crimes, and neo-Nazism, and deplored the violent treatment of peaceful demonstrators by relevant law enforcement agencies.
The resolution requires the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report on systemic racism and human rights violations by law enforcement agencies as soon as possible, review the measures taken by relevant governments to respond to peaceful protests against racism, and continue to pay attention to the consequences of Freud’s death Follow-up events.
On May 25 this year, the white police in Minneapolis, USA arrested Freud with a knee for a long time to press his neck, Freud subsequently died. This incident triggered a wave of mass protests across the United States and many countries. From June 17 to 18, at the request of the United Nations African Group, the United Nations Human Rights Council held an emergency meeting to focus on the issues of racism and police violence exposed by Freud’s death.