Cuba and China among countries elected to the UN Human Rights Council

The United Nations General Assembly allowed multiple countries with documented instances of human rights abuses into the organization’s human rights council on Tuesday.

The international group’s general assembly issued votes to allow China and Cuba into the human rights council, despite both countries having sites of human rights atrocities committed by communist authoritarian governments. Cuba received 170 votes out of 192 possible ballots, while China received 139 votes. Pakistan and Russia were also voted to the council.