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Al Jazeera
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Erin Hale

What will the UN see as it finally visits China’s Xinjiang?

A Chinese national flag flies over a vehicle entrance to the inmate detention area at the Urumqi No 3 Detention Centre in Dabancheng, Xinjiang, in April 2021 [File: Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo]

Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is finally in China and travelling to Xinjiang nearly four years after first announcing her intention to visit the country amid concerns of serious human rights abuses in the northwestern region.

Xinjiang is home to the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic people who differ in religion, language, and culture from China’s majority Han ethnic group.

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