West demands publication of UN’s long-awaited Xinjiang report

Michelle Bachelet, the UN high commissioner for human rights, speaking to journalists during a virtual press conference in Guangzhou at the end of her six-day visit to China. Photograph: Ohchr Handout/EPA

Pressure to release a long-awaited Xinjiang report is mounting on the UN’s rights head, as her recent six-day visit to China left activists, western governments and commentators unsatisfied.

The report, which Michelle Bachelet said was being finalised late last year, is believed to contain evidence of China’s alleged human rights abuses of its Uyghur ethnic minority group in Xinjiang.