United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Xinjiang, where her office believes Uyghurs have been unlawfully detained and mistreated
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet begins a visit to China on Monday, the first trip by a holder of the office since 2005 amid concerns that it could lead to an endorsement rather than scrutiny of China’s rights record.
Rights groups worry that if Bachelet does not press China hard enough, her post-trip report may not give a full picture and could be used by Beijing to justify its actions in Xinjiang. International scrutiny of the government’s actions in Xinjiang heightened in 2018 after the United Nations said 1 million Uyghurs were held in “massive internment camps” set up for political indoctrination.
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