China called Thursday a “political tool” and categorically rejected a “misleading” UN report on the ethnic group’s human rights situation. Uigur and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.”
“The report prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) violates its obligations (…) and is full of misconceptions,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs China Wang Wenbin.
Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs China reaffirmed at that agency’s daily press conference that the text presented yesterday, Wednesday, is nothing less than “an invention turned into a political tool” by the US and Western countries, adding that “bad practice” must be stopped”, and “double standards” when it comes to the politicization of human rights.
With such statements, the government of the Asian giant reacted to the OHCHR document, published on the day the term of office of Michelle Bachelet, also the former president of Chile, at the head of this department, expired.
Mass Arbitrary Arrests and Other Abuses
Bachelet visited Xinjiang last May to try to learn about the situation in the region following repeated complaints of abuses against Muslim minorities.
The text of his report concludes that the Asian country was able to commit crimes against humanity against Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities through policies of massive arbitrary arrests and other serious abuses against them.
Estimated UNin Xinjiang there were up to a million detainees.
The report was made available to the United Nations accredited press just a few minutes before the end of Bachelet’s last official day as High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
The former President of Chile admitted at her last press conference at the head of OHCHR last week that some countries had asked her not to release the document.
UN believes China may have committed crimes against humanity with Uyghurs | Font: EFE
For its part, the mission China at the United Nations in Geneva shortly after the report became known, was criticized for being “based on disinformation and lies fabricated by anti-Chinese forces”.
The publication, as the diplomatic mission said in a statement, “distorts laws and policies Chinaslanders for no reason and interferes in internal affairs.”
These revelations are not the only ones that have recently denounced the situation in Uighurs in the region.
In May of this year, some documents, the product of a leak, were released about life in the re-education camps built in Xinjiang since 2017, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic people were to be or were to be held. Uigur or other Muslim minorities.
(As reported by EFE)
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