Shincheonji Covid-19 saga is more of state conscious, barefaced violation of rights-Former UN Chief
The Former President of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Ambassador Martin Uhomoibhi has waded into the controversies surrounding the burgeoning issues of human rights abuses being perpetrated against the Shincheonji church and its leader, Lee Man-hee by the South Korean Government in this advent of Covid-19, described it as ‘unfortunate and unique barefaced violation of rights of freedom of worship’. Speaking at a 2-day virtual summit to deliberate and proffer solutions to the escalating issues of human rights abuses around the world with emphasis on the South Korean situation, the former UN boss lamentably said: “The Shincheonji Covid-19 saga is more of state and conscious barefaced violation of rights of freedom of worship of unique occurrence which ought to be widely condemned in no uncertain terms”. “He further revealed: “this is just a clear sense of selective victimization in which the Shincheonji church appears to have only come under the heavy sledg