GENEVA: The United Nations released a bombshell report into serious human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region late on Wednesday (Aug 31), saying torture allegations were credible and citing possible crimes against humanity. The report, in the making for around a year, was released in Geneva at 11
GENEVA: The United Nations released a bombshell report into serious human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region late on Wednesday , saying torture allegations were credible and citing possible crimes against humanity.
"I said that I would publish it before my mandate ended and I have," Bachelet said in an email sent to AFP. Campaigners have accused China of a litany of abuses, while Beijing has vehemently rejected the claims, insisting it is running vocational training centres in Xinjiang designed to counter extremism.
"Allegations of patterns of torture or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention, are credible, as are allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence," the report said. The 49-page report made no reference to genocide: One of the key allegations made by China's critics, including the United States and lawmakers in other Western countries.Speaking on Wednesday after Bachelet's office had announced it would release the report, Zhang Jun, China's ambassador to the UN in New York, said Beijing had told her that it was"firmly opposed" to the rights assessment.
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