«The office staff were the ones trying to get [the report] out despite all the barriers.»
Earlier this month the UN released a report concluding that China was violating human rights in Xinjiang. When I wrote about the report I mentioned that there had been a battle behind the scenes between those who wanted to report released and China itself which used its influence to try to prevent the report’s publication. Here’s what the Associated Press said about it at the time.
So the story was that the UN Human Rights Chief had resisted the pressure. But according to a Financial Times story published yesterday, it was the UN human rights chief herself who was against publishing the report out of a desire to avoid alienating China.
