-UN Watch
GENEVA, February 22, 2022 – A cross-regional coalition of 25 human rights organizations announced today that its prestigious international human rights award will go this year to Enes Kanter Freedom, a NBA athlete and activist currently risking his career for speak out against China’s persecution of ethnic Uyghurs.
Freedom will receive the Geneva Summit’s 2022 Courage Award at a ceremony on Wednesday, April 6th, 2022, where he will address UN ambassadors, human rights activists and journalists from around the world attending the 14th annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy,
Freedom was chosen for his “heroic efforts to sound the alarm on China’s brutal human rights abuses,” said Hillel Neuer, the executive director of United Nations Watch, a co-organizer of the conference together with Liberal International, Human Rights Foundation, and over 20 other human rights groups.
“I want to say thank you to the Geneva Summit for Human Rights for its support and for shining a global spotlight on human rights abuse in China,” said Freedom. “I hope this encourages other athletes to stand up for what is right.” Click here to read more.