US EditionFury mounts over ‘false’ claims against UN rapporteur
False claims about UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s speech led to political backlash and legal complaints, despite verified transcripts disproving allegations, Amnesty International said.
- After a circulated truncated clip, France 24 and Reuters verified Francesca Albanese did not call Israel the `common enemy of humanity` during her February 2026 Doha Forum address.
- Since taking the mandate in 2023, her October 2024 report `Genocide as Colonial Erasure` argued there were reasonable grounds to suspect genocide, and her 2025 Human Rights Council report traced an economy of genocide implicating Western governments.
- Event transcripts show she identified the `common enemy` as systems—`financial capital`, `algorithms` and `weapons`—not a state, Albanese clarified publicly.
- Legal pressure in Paris escalated when Jurdi filed a crime report accusing Jean-Noël Barrot, French foreign minister, of spreading false information, while Amnesty International demanded European states retract accusations and the UN human rights office defended rapporteurs amid rising misinformation.
- Analysts and Reuters observed that over 100 cultural figures and a coalition of 116 human-rights organisations defended Albanese, while the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation warned fabricated claims could undermine credibility.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, decided to file a lawsuit against the newspaper Corriere della Sera for defamation, after appearing on the front page openly labeled as an “increasingly pro-Hamas militant”, and that she was credited with a quote she never said about Israel being the “enemy of humanity,” reported the writer, poet and activist Soumaila Diawara, in a message in X.
Fury mounts over ‘false’ claims against UN rapporteur
• Media reports confirm Francesca Albanese never called Israel ‘common enemy of humanity’• Amnesty chief brands European ministers’ refusal to retract ‘political cowardice’• French lawyers file criminal complaint against Barrot over false statements• Ruffalo, Bardem among over 100 celebrities rallying behind UN expert• OIC warns fabricated claims risk undermining credibility of UN Human Rights Council TOP European government officials who led a …
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