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“Arms dealers operating out of Singapore are critical to the continued operation of the Myanmar military’s deadly weapons factories,” Thomas Andrews, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, when the report was published.
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet said in a statement in French that the government is using the special rapporteur to keep Parliament and the public in the dark.
In a phone interview, — the United Nations’ special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions — who is a signatory to the experts’ letter to the Saudi government, said he was not surprised that the issue had received little attention.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/world/middleeast/saudi-killing-migrants-yemen.html
“I will be appointing an independent special rapporteur, who will have a wide mandate and make expert recommendations on combating interference and strengthening our democracy,” Trudeau told reporters in a press briefing.
Special rapporteur David Johnston concedes that Erin O'Toole's claim that his campaign was targeted by China in the 2021 election, and the lack of supporting evidence reported by Johnston, calls for closer investigation.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/johnston-committee-foreign-interference-1.6866083?cmp=rss
“The consistency and methods of alleged torture suggests ‘a level of coordination, planning and organisation, as well as the direct authorisation, deliberate policy or official tolerance from superior authorities’,” the UN rapporteur said in a statement.
The independent special rapporteur, former Canadian governor-general David Johnston, released his report on Tuesday, amid criticism from the opposition of it being an exercise in “whitewashing”.
"The situation was already in constant decline over the last two decades, partly due to the two wars in Chechnya which ended in 2009", said UN rapporteur Mariana Katzarova, who is responsible for monitoring rights and freedoms in Russia.
This is the first time a rapporteur has been appointed to investigate one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
Trudeau is committed to keeping David Johnston as Canada's special rapporteur into foreign interference despite a majority of MPs voting to oust the former governor general from the gig.