UN members condemn China over treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang

October 22, 2021

More than 40 Western-led countries criticized China’s widely reported atrocities against the Uyghurs in a statement issued at the United Nations, calling on Beijing to immediately allow independent observers into the Xinjiang region.

The statement by 43 nations, including the U.S., cited “credible reports” of a large network of political re-education camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) where over a million people have been arbitrarily detained.

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