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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Michael Howie

China may have committed ‘crimes against humanity’ in Xinjiang, says UN

China’s discriminatory detention of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the UN human rights office said in a long-awaited report.

The report calls for an urgent international response over allegations of torture and other rights violations in Beijing’s campaign to root out terrorism.

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