China, Cuba, Russia, and Saudi Arabia systematically violate the human rights of their own citizens

China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Cuba win seats on UN Human Rights ... - Washington Post (Nov 12, 2013 14:55) 

Geneva-based UN Watch, a frequent critic of U.N. rights practices, denounced what it considered the worst new members.

“China, Cuba, Russia, and Saudi Arabia systematically violate the human rights of their own citizens, and they consistently vote the wrong way on U.N. initiatives to protect the human rights of others,” said UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer. “For the U.N. to elect Saudi Arabia as a world judge on human rights would be like a town making a pyromaniac into chief of the fire department.

“Regrettably, so far neither the U.S. nor the EU have said a word about hypocritical candidacies that will undermine the credibility and effectiveness of the UN human rights system. By turning a blind eye as human rights violators easily join and subvert the council, leading democracies will be complicit in the world body’s moral decline.”