Geneva,
Xinjiang province is located in the northwest of China. The province is home to a large number of Uyghur Muslims.
In this case, it became known to the whole world that hundreds of thousands of Muslims are being held in camps and being tortured in Xinjiang province. But China denied this.
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Wednesday released a report on atrocities in China’s Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang.
After this, the UN on the Xinjiang issue. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has emphasized that China should follow the recommendations of the published report.
UN Secretary-General’s Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said:-
The UN Secretary General was concerned after reading the contents of the report released yesterday. UN China will accept the recommendations made in the Human Rights Commissioner’s report, he said.
For some time now, the UN Secretary General has been saying that human rights must be respected and the Uyghur community must be respected. In this case, this report confirms what the Secretary General has been saying about the Xinjiang issue.
His spokesperson said that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said this.
UN Commission on Human Rights report:
Human rights abuses against Uighurs and other majority Muslim communities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have been brought to the attention of the UN Human Rights Office since late 2017.
In this case, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet visited China last May to investigate. He then said that many allegations of severe torture, custodial ill-treatment and incidents of sexual and gender-based violence were credible.
In this regard, UN The Human Rights Commission conducted a detailed investigation and released a 48-page report on August 31. It has been proven that the Chinese government is torturing the Uighur Muslims.
The statement came just hours before UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet was due to retire on her last day in office, publicly blaming China. It says:
Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and tortured. Their body parts are stolen and sold in the black market. Women of this caste are subjected to sexual violence.
Various medical tests are conducted with them. Uighur Muslims are subjected to forced sterilization to control their population. Contraceptive pills and injections are also administered.
Muslims are treated like slaves in the camps. All their fundamental rights have been taken away. The Chinese government must stop such torture. The controversial laws related to the Xinjiang region should be withdrawn.
This is stated in the report.
China’s Position:
UN Following the release of the Human Rights Commissioner’s report, a group of 60 Uyghur organizations from 20 countries around the world are calling for an immediate solution to end China’s atrocities against Uyghurs.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government has denied the UN’s detailed report.
“Authorities in the Xinjiang region operate on the principle of equality before the law,” the Chinese Embassy to the UN said in a statement.
UN on the effects of terrorism in the Xinjiang region. Not indicated in the report. The Chinese government is taking various measures to uphold human rights in that area. A one-sided report has been published hiding them. No one can interfere in China’s internal affairs,” it said.