Xinjiang



Rights advocates demand UN press China on abuses in Xinjiang

  • Members of China’s Uyghur minority joined NGOs on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to urge UN rights chief Volker Turk to step up pressure on Beijing
  • A Chinese diplomat in the room took the floor to insist that ‘claims of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances are outright lies’
By AFP ·