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Concerns regarding China’s human rights violations in the Xinjiang region have been raised by the United Nations in its recent report. A high-level United Nations panel has criticised China’s human rights abuses committed in western Xinjiang regions.
China has been committing human rights violations using “severe and undue restrictions” that are “characterised by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities,” Bangkok Post reported. The presentation, “The situation of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang,” comes after the report issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
In the report, the OHCHR found evidence of patterns of torture, forced medical treatments, forced labour, incidents of sexual and gender-based violence, violations of reproductive rights and the destruction of religious sites. In addition, the report highlighted the use of detention and re-education camps for more than a million residents.
“In 2017, reports began to emerge of severe restrictions on the freedoms of religion or belief, movement, association and expression in Xinjiang, China. Over the past few years, numerous open source reports corroborated these accounts,” Bangkok Post cited the panel as saying in the statement.
Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, while speaking in the context of the OHCHR report released in August expressed views regarding “crimes against humanity” and listed “sterilisation, forced abortion” among crimes.
