Beijing disputed the report, in which the UN Office disclosed credible evidence of torture and sexual and gender-based violence against Uyghur detainees in the camps.
The Chinese government has committed “serious human rights violations” in its treatment of Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. This was reported in the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, reports the Financial Times.
Beijing is said to have contested a report in which the UN Office revealed credible evidence of torture and sexual and gender-based violence against Uighur detainees in the camps.
The UN Human Rights Office has accused China of actions that “may constitute international crimes, including crimes against humanity,” notes The New York Times. The report states that discrimination also includes restrictions on religious identity and expression, as well as “serious violations of reproductive rights due to the coercive and discriminatory use of family planning and birth control policies. “
It is said to be the first UN investigation into abuses in the region, where more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities have been subjected to mass internment and forced labor.
Since 2017, China has stepped up police control over 13 million people in Xinjiang, calling the measures “anti-terrorist.” The UN said the “counter-terrorism system” resulted in “widespread arbitrary detention” of Uyghurs and other minorities in “Vocational Education and Training Centers” (VETs) between 2017 and 2019.
Remember that the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea is widely violating people’s rights: it is continuously and deliberately promoting a policy of destruction and displacement of indigenous peoples.
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