“We are deeply concerned about the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region,” the statement said. Its signatories recall that, according to credible reports, more than a million people are arbitrarily detained in the Chinese region and state supervision is disproportionately directed against the Uighurs and other minorities. There is also information from Xinjiang about torture or cruel and inhuman treatment, degrading punishment, forced sterilization or the separation of children from their parents by the authorities.
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“We call on China to allow immediate … and unrestricted access to Xinjiang to independent observers, including the High Commissioner,” the statement said, whose signatories also raised concerns about the fragmentation of fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong and the human rights situation in Tibet. Western countries have joined the challenge.
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On the contrary, according to the agencies, China demands that the UN Human Rights Council “objectively investigate” crimes committed against the indigenous people of Canada, especially children. This is in connection with the recent discovery of a mass grave with the remains of 215 children on the site of a former church boarding school. It was part of a system that sought to assimilate the descendants of the natives and by forcing them to be separated from their parents.
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