| | With the help of Mercury Public Affairs,<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0079654Z:US</ref> a high-end U.S.-based lobbying firm that calls itself a “high-stakes public strategy firm”, Tadros attempted to obscure his past. | | With the help of Mercury Public Affairs,<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0079654Z:US</ref> a high-end U.S.-based lobbying firm that calls itself a “high-stakes public strategy firm”, Tadros attempted to obscure his past. |
| − | As a candidate for the WHO top post, ''[[The New York Times]]'' accused Adhanom of covering up at least three [[epidemic]]s.<ref>http://archive.is/9B2Zy</ref> One of Adhanom's first actions as director-general was to name the repressive [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictator [[Robert Mugabe]], who in the 1980s ordered the killing of 20,000 people in [[Zimbabwe]], as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador.<ref>http://archive.is/1PaM6</ref> Peter Humphrey, a British investigator who was jailed in China in 2013 had been drugged, chained to a chair, locked in a cage and made to read out a statement written by the police in front of cameras. The anchor who presented the footage, James Chao, was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador with the World Health Organization. | + | As a candidate for the WHO top post, ''[[The New York Times]]'' accused Adhanom of covering up at least three [[epidemic]]s.<ref>http://archive.is/9B2Zy</ref> One of Adhanom's first actions as director-general was to name the repressive [[Marxist-Leninist]] dictator [[Robert Mugabe]], who in the 1980s ordered the killing of 20,000 people in [[Zimbabwe]], as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador.<ref>http://archive.is/1PaM6</ref> Peter Humphrey, a British investigator who was jailed in China in 2013 had been drugged, chained to a chair, locked in a cage and made to read out a statement written by the police in front of cameras.<ref>http://archive.is/asrPk</ref> The anchor who presented the footage, James Chao, was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador with the World Health Organization. |