China dismissed the report saying it is based on “disinformation and lies fabricated by anti-China forces.”
China’s detention of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in its northwestern region of Xinjiang may have amounted to international crimes—including “crimes against humanity”—according to a much-delayed United Nations report released on Thursday which has already triggered an angry response from Beijing.
“The UN human rights chief for the first time lays bare the Chinese government’s grave abuses and concludes they may amount to crimes against humanity…Victims and their families whom the Chinese government has long vilified have at long last seen their persecution recognized, and can now look to the UN and its member states for action to hold those responsible accountable,” John Fisher, the global advocacy deputy director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.
