| | 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. | | 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. |