UN rights chief asked China to review Xinjiang counterterrorism practices

BEIJING - The United Nations' human rights chief has urged China to review all of its counterterrorism measures in Xinjiang, and ensure they are in line with international standards, and not applied"in an arbitrary and discriminatory way".

Ms Bachelet had gone to Kashgar and Urumqi in China's western Xinjiang province, where more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities had supposedly been held in detention camps to be deradicalised. Beijing says these are vocational educational and training centres , and all participants have graduated by 2019.

On Monday, during her video call with dozens of diplomats, United States ambassador to China Nicholas Burns and some others expressed concern that she would be led on a highly controlled and choreographed tour by Beijing. The US had called her visit under such conditions"a mistake". It also provided a chance for her to ask China to use its leverage to bring about political solutions to crises in the region and the world, although she did not say what these issues were.

Besides Xinjiang, she also urged Beijing not to stifle human rights activists and academics in Hong Kong, saying their arrests under the national security law is"deeply worrying". After her call with President Xi, Chinese state media had reported that the rights chief had"expressed admiration for China's efforts on...protecting human rights", which her office later debunked by providing a transcript of her opening remarks.

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