Geneva, Jan. 26 -- The UN Human Rights Office is facing the heat for sharing the names of Chinese government opponents, including Uighur activists, Tibetans and Hongkongers, who took part in UN activities, for a long period of time, triggering a massive controversy.

"@antonioguterres is going to fire me specifically because I reported@UN actively providing names of #Uyghurs, #Tibetans and other dissidents to the Chinese government.@UN is trying to stop me taking @ministerBlok to court for repeating their defamation. /1 @UNWatch," Emma Reilly, a staffer at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and a human rights lawyer, tweeted as she made the striking revelation.

She recently shared the emails with ...