Chinese President Xi Jinping has defended his government’s record during a video call with the United Nations human rights chief, whose visit to China coincided with the leak of a cache of photos and documents detailing alleged abuses against ethnic Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang.
While Michelle Bachelet’s controversial six-day trip will include a visit to Xinjiang, where her office said last year it believes members of the mostly Muslim minority have been unlawfully detained, mistreated and forced to work, there was no mention of it in a state media account of their video meeting.
