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ABC News
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foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic

Countries vote down motion to discuss UN report into China's serious human rights violations in Xinjiang

A human rights group has slammed Indonesia and Pakistan after they voted to block a United Nations Human Rights Council debate on human rights abuses of Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.

The Australian government has also issued a forceful statement after the vote, saying the mistreatment of Uyghurs "cannot be ignored by the international community".

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