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Jean-Claude Buhrer

Jean-Claude Buhrer is a Swiss journalist and author. He reported for ''Le Monde''. He has been on the UN Watch board. He has written about Asia and Latin America. A ''Mother Jones'' article referred to Buhrer as the "world's leading" watcher of Swiss Nazi supporter François Genoud.

French journalist and orientalist Claude B. Levenson (died 2010) was his wife and co-author.

Buhrer received "La Pluma de Plata Mexicana" in 1993 for his articles on Mexico in the newspaper ''Le Monde''.

In 2007 he was interviewed about protests in Burma. In 2009, he was interviewed about political violence in Thailand.

He has been critical of the UN Commission on Human Rights. He wrote about Mexican journalist Manuel Buendia who was assassinated. Buhrer was banned from China because of his articles about Tibet. Provided by Wikipedia