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China slams a United Nations report into human rights abuses of its Muslim Uyghur in the Xinjiang region as a "political tool" being used against Beijing. Foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin claims the report was "manufactured by the US and some other Western forces". The report said torture allegations were credible and cited possible crimes against humanity.
China's foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian rejects a "false" statement signed onto by fifty countries at a UN debate that condemned the "severe and systematic" human rights violations in Xinjiang region.
It was the report that China hoped would never see the light of day. Just minutes before her mandate ended, the office of now-former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet published its long-overdue assessment of human rights in China's Xinjiang region. It contained damning findings of mass arbitrary detention of Uighur minority people, forced labour, torture, sexual and gender-based violence, as well as other atrocities which could legally be considered crimes against humanity. This chimes with the position of the European Parliament, which had already overwhelmingly voted to recognise the Chinese government's treatment of the Uighurs as such. But where does the EU go from here? We put the question to two MEPs.
The United Nations released a major report into serious human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region Wednesday, saying torture allegations were credible and citing possible crimes against humanity but stopping short of calling it genocide.
The Environmental Justice Foundation exposes the extent of illegal fishing and human rights violations by China’s distant water fleet.View on euronews
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