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Dozens of countries question China at UN over Xinjiang ‘abuses’

Police officers patrol in the old city in Kashgar, Xinjiang in the Uighur Autonomous Region in China [File: Thomas Peter/Reuters]

Dozens of countries have voiced concern about alleged abuses in China’s far western Xinjiang region, and demanded that the United Nations rights chief publish a long-delayed report on the situation there.

“We continue to be gravely concerned about the human rights situation in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region,” Paul Bekkers, the Dutch ambassador to the UN in Geneva, told the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday.

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