Human rights violations, area of concern as UN officer visits China
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet arrived in China on Monday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry said. Bachelet will visit south China’s Guangdong Province and northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and will undertake extensive exchanges with people from all sectors of society. Allegations of human rights abuses in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are the dominant issue. Michelle Bachelet’s visit is the first to China by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005, but rights groups warn it threatens to whitewash the ruling Communist Party’s abuses in Xinjiang. China has locked up more than a million members of its Uyghur, Kazakh and other minorities in what critics describe as a campaign to obliterate their identities.
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