Downloaded from: justpaste.it/5ay39
China: UN calls for Human Rights commission’s visit to Xinjiang camps A British media house report alleged systematic rape in so-called re-education camps
United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric on Thursday called for a visit of High Commissioner’s for Human Rights to the Muslim-majority Chinese region of Xinjiang, after a British media house report alleging systematic rape in so-called re-education camps. Sputnik cited interviews that the UK media outlet conducted with former detainees and a guard, that Muslim Uyghur women in such camps are systematically subjected to rape, torture and sexual abuse.
“Taking into account the nature of the allegations in the report and the denial by the authorities of these allegations, I think it’s more important now than ever for the proposed mission of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to go forward,” Dujarric said in a press briefing. The US Department of State has expressed its disturbance over the reports about systematic rape and sexual abuse in camps for Uyghurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. “We are deeply disturbed by reports, including first-hand testimony, of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang. People’s Republic of China (PRC) authorities should allow for immediate and independent investigations by international observers into these shocking allegations, in addition to the other atrocities being committed in Xinjiang,” the department said in a statement on late Wednesday as quoted by Sputnik…