GENEVA (7 September 2022) – Independent UN experts* said today that profound concerns over systematic human rights violations and their widespread effect on individuals and minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region cannot, and should not, be ignored by the international community. They repeated a call for the Human Rights Council to convene a special session on China. In supporting the recently released assessment by the UN Human Rights Office on allegations of abuses in Xinjiang, the experts highlighted the conclusion from the assessment that “the extent of arbitrary and…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 07 September 2022. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
