China rejects UN report on Uyghur rights abuses in Xinjiang
The report by the U.N. human rights office in Geneva calls for "urgent attention" from the world community to address serious human rights violations under Beijing’s anti-terrorism and anti-extremism policies against ethnic Muslims of the Xinjiang region
By AP News
Published - Sep 01, 2022, 11:32 AM ET
Last Updated - Jun 24, 2023, 12:10 PM EDT
China has denounced a long-delayed U.N. report that was
released over its protest and that says the government's arbitrary detention of
Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang
may constitute crimes against humanity.
Human rights groups and the Japanese government welcomed the
