UN Human Rights Council may replace Libya with ... Syria

Geneva-based human rights group UN Watch reported Wednesday that Syria has announced it will compete for a seat in the council during the upcoming elections scheduled to take place on May 20.

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer criticized the move, calling it “an outrage.” Neuer noted that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi “was just ousted by the UN on grounds that a government which brutalizes its own people doesn’t belong on the world’s highest human rights body.