The United States on Saturday expressed concern that Beijing may have imposed restrictions on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ visit to Xinjiang, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said.
The head of diplomacy in Washington, in a statement, said that the circumstances of Michelle Bachelet’s visit did not allow for a full and independent assessment of the human rights situation.
It is to explain: “Concerned by reports that people in Xinjiang have been warned not to complain or speak out about the situation in the region;“.
The Chinese region has long been the scene of bloody attacks on civilians, which authorities say have been carried out by separatists, Islamists and the region’s main ethnic group, the Uyghurs.
Agence France-Presse reported that the western Chinese province of Xinjiang has been under heavy surveillance for several years.
In Western studies, Beijing is accused of detaining more than a million Uyghurs and members of other Muslim ethnic groups in reeducation camps and even using forced labor or sterilization. The United States is talking about genocide.
Head of human rights at the United Nations Tweet embed 6-day official visit ends to #China.
“Tendon # XinjiangI have raised questions and concerns about counter-terrorism and deradicalization measures, their application and impact on human rights #Uyghur and other Muslim minorities.
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– United Nations Human Rights (UNHumanRights) May 28, 2022
China has condemned the biased reports and talked about vocational training centers that aim to develop job opportunities and eradicate extremism.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visited Xinjiang, the region’s capital, in Urumqi and said he had visited a prison in Kashgar, where he had seen prisoners, among other things, and described access to it as fairly open and somewhat transparent.
He said the Xinjiang government assured him that the network of vocational training centers had been dismantled. Michelle Bachelet said she had visited one of the former centers.
“To those who have sent me pleas – I have heard you. Your advocacy is important.” –Tweet embed At the end of #China visit.
“My visit was an opportunity to raise specific positions and issues with the government. I will continue to follow up”
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– United Nations Human Rights (UNHumanRights) May 28, 2022
Details of his visit were not announced. The former Chilean president was in a medical envelope that kept him from the foreign press due to the epidemic in China.
In her online press conference at the end of her trip, Bachelet emphasized that his visit, which was excluded from the foreign press, was not an investigation.
