The investigation, dubbed as “China Targets”, involves 42 media organisations and delves into the various tactics Beijing uses to silence critics beyond its borders, the report said. One segment of the investigation’s probe deals with China’s increasing offensive at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, with focus on the growing presence there of pro-China, government-organised non-governmental organisations, referred to, often derisively, as “Gongos”.
Such groups are found to crowd into council sessions to praise China and present glowing accounts of its actions that are largely at odds with UN and expert findings of widespread rights violations and repression.
