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China faces UN heat over Uyghur torture

by Janam Web Desk
Sep 1, 2022, 11:14 am IST
in World, News

United Nations: The UN has accused China of “serious human rights violations” in a long-awaited report into allegations of abuse in Xinjiang province. The report assesses claims of abuse against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, which China denies.

The UN recommended that China immediately takes steps to release “all  individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” and suggested that  some of Beijing’s actions could amount to the “commission of  international crimes, including crimes against humanity”.

While  the UN said it could not be sure how many people have been held by the  government, human rights groups estimate that more than a million people  have been detained at camps in the Xinjiang region, in north-west  China.

China had urged the UN not to release the report — with Beijing calling it a “farce” arranged by Western powers, the BBC reported.

Investigators said they uncovered “credible evidence” of torture possibly amounting to “crimes against humanity”.

The UN accused China of using vague national security laws to clamp down on the rights of minorities and establishing “systems of arbitrary detention”.

The report, which was commissioned by the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, said prisoners had been subjected to “patterns of ill-treatment” which included “incidents of sexual and gender-based violence”.

Others, they said, faced forced medical treatment and “discriminatory enforcement of family planning and birth control policies”.

There are about 12 million Uyghurs, mostly Muslim, living in Xinjiang. The UN said non-Muslim members may have also been affected by the issues in the report, the BBC added.

Several countries have previously described China’s actions in Xinjiang as a genocide.

But Beijing – which saw the report in advance – denies allegations of abuse and argued that the camps are a tool to fight terrorism. Its delegation to the UN human rights council in Geneva rejected the findings of the report, which it said “smeared and slandered China” and interfered in the country’s internal affairs.

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