UN Must Take Action on China’s Abuses in Xinjiang, Diplomats and Rights Groups Say


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A guard watchtower rises along the perimeter fence of an internment camp in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in a file photo. Reuters The United Nations must take urgent and immediate action to protect Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims facing crimes against humanity committed by China in its northwestern Xinjiang region, diplomats, legal experts, and rights activists said on Wednesday. Speaking in an online virtual meeting, Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said that more than a million Uyghurs and other members of Muslim ethnic minority groups have already been incarcerated in a vast network of detention camps in...