News Snapshot:
At the United Nations, the UK was one of 39 countries to voice concerns about the security crackdown in Hong Kong and the abuse of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told MPs at Westminster that evidence of abuses in Xinjiang was being reviewed to see whether it amounted to genocide. He told the Foreign Affairs Committee: “I have made clear that there is evidence of serious and egregious human rights violations, gross human rights violations.†But to be classed as genocide, Mr Raab, a former war crimes lawyer, said it had to be proved that the deliberate...
