The UN human rights chief will travel to China on Monday for a long-awaited visit to the northwestern region of Xinjiang where Beijing has been accused of abuses against the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.
High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s six-day mission follows years of requests for “meaningful and unfettered” access to the area, where the UN said in 2018 millions of Uighurs had been held in “counter-extremism centres” and “re-education camps”.
