Immediately published, immediately refuted. After Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued the assessment report on the issue of human rights violations in Xinjiang on August 31, China reacted by refuting totally the conclusions of this one, notes the Lianhe Zaobao from Singapore.
This document corroborates a large number of accusations made repeatedly in recent years of the mistreatment inflicted by the Chinese authorities on the Uighur populations in Xinjiang, as well as on other predominantly Muslim populations, in particular the detention without trial or appeal. law in re-education camps. The report, which covers the period 2017-2019, relies both on official documents obtained by the High Commissioner and on numerous testimonies reporting torture and ill-treatment in these camps to conclude that “serious violations of human rights”.
The 1is September, the head of the Chinese delegation to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Liu Yuyi