Bachelet’s damning report was published just 11 minutes before her term ends at midnight Geneva time. Publication was delayed by the eleventh-hour delivery of an official Chinese response containing names and photographs of individuals to be barred from the UN Commissioner’s office for privacy and security reasons. The Chinese government, which tried until the last minute to stop publication of the report, dismissed it as defamation against China, while Uyghur human rights groups hailed it as a turning point in the international response to the mass incarceration program. The 45-page report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concludes: “The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim groups, under law and policy, in the context of restrictions and deprivations more generally of the fundamental rights we enjoy individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity’. The Chinese government, which tried until the last minute to stop publication of the report, said in an official response that it was “based on misinformation and lies fabricated by anti-Chinese forces” and that it “slanders and slanders unintentionally” China. and interfered in the internal affairs of the country. Omer Kanat, the executive director of the lobby group the Uyghur Human Rights Program, said Bachelet’s report was “a game changer for the international response to the Uyghur crisis.” “Despite persistent denials by the Chinese government, the UN has now officially acknowledged that horrific crimes are taking place,” Kanat said. Over the past five years, China has herded about a million Uyghurs and other minority groups into internment camps it has called training centers. Some of the centers have since been closed, but hundreds of thousands more are believed to be still incarcerated. In several hundred cases the families had no idea about the fate of their relatives who had been detained. Of the 26 former detainees interviewed by UN investigators, two-thirds “reported having been subjected to treatment that would amount to torture and/or other forms of ill-treatment.” Abuses described included beatings with electric batons while tied to a “tiger chair” (in which prisoners are tied by the hands and feet), prolonged solitary confinement, as well as what appeared to be a form of sea, “subjective interrogation with water pouring on their faces.” The US and some other countries have said the mass imprisonment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, the destruction of mosques and communities, and forced abortions and sterilizations amounts to genocide. The UN report does not mention genocide, but says allegations of torture, including forced medical procedures, and sexual violence were all “credible”. It said authorities considered breaches of the official three-child family size limit to be a sign of “extremism”, leading to incarceration. “Many women interviewed by OHCHR made allegations of forced birth control, particularly forced IUDs [intrauterine device] placements and possible forced sterilizations in relation to Uyghur and Kazakh women. Some women spoke of the risk of harsh punishments, including ‘imprisonment’ or ‘prison’ for violations of the family planning policy,” the report said. “Among them, OHCHR interviewed some women who said they were forced to have abortions or forced to have IUDs inserted after they had reached the number of children allowed under the family planning policy. These first-hand accounts, though limited in number, are considered reliable.’ In the report, Bachelet, a former president of Chile, noted that the average sterilization rate per 100,000 people in China as a whole was just over 32. In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region it was 243. “Serious violations of human rights have been committed [the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] as part of implementing the government’s counter-terrorism and ‘extremism’ strategy,” the report said. “These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory element, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities.” The report calls on the Chinese government to “immediately take measures to release all persons who were arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” in Xinjiang and “urgently clarify the whereabouts of persons whose families sought information about their loved ones.” Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The UN Human Rights Council should use the report to launch a comprehensive investigation into the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and others – and hold those responsible to account.”
title: “China S Treatment Of Uyghurs May Be A Crime Against Humanity Says Un Human Rights Chief China Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-13” author: “Danielle Tucker”
Bachelet’s damning report was published just 11 minutes before her term ends at midnight Geneva time. Publication was delayed by the eleventh-hour delivery of an official Chinese response containing names and photographs of individuals to be barred from the UN Commissioner’s office for privacy and security reasons. The Chinese government, which tried until the last minute to stop publication of the report, dismissed it as defamation against China, while Uyghur human rights groups hailed it as a turning point in the international response to the mass incarceration program. The 45-page report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concludes: “The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim groups, under law and policy, in the context of restrictions and deprivations more generally of the fundamental rights we enjoy individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity’. The Chinese government, which tried until the last minute to stop publication of the report, said in an official response that it was “based on misinformation and lies fabricated by anti-Chinese forces” and that it “slanders and slanders unintentionally” China. and interfered in the internal affairs of the country. Omer Kanat, the executive director of the lobby group the Uyghur Human Rights Program, said Bachelet’s report was “a game changer for the international response to the Uyghur crisis.” “Despite persistent denials by the Chinese government, the UN has now officially acknowledged that horrific crimes are taking place,” Kanat said. Over the past five years, China has herded about a million Uyghurs and other minority groups into internment camps it has called training centers. Some of the centers have since been closed, but hundreds of thousands more are believed to be still incarcerated. In several hundred cases the families had no idea about the fate of their relatives who had been detained. Of the 26 former detainees interviewed by UN investigators, two-thirds “reported having been subjected to treatment that would amount to torture and/or other forms of ill-treatment.” Abuses described included beatings with electric batons while tied to a “tiger chair” (in which prisoners are tied by the hands and feet), prolonged solitary confinement, as well as what appeared to be a form of sea, “subjective interrogation with water pouring on their faces.” The US and some other countries have said the mass imprisonment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, the destruction of mosques and communities, and forced abortions and sterilizations amounts to genocide. The UN report does not mention genocide, but says allegations of torture, including forced medical procedures, and sexual violence were all “credible”. It said authorities considered breaches of the official three-child family size limit to be a sign of “extremism”, leading to incarceration. “Many women interviewed by OHCHR made allegations of forced birth control, particularly forced IUDs [intrauterine device] placements and possible forced sterilizations in relation to Uyghur and Kazakh women. Some women spoke of the risk of harsh punishments, including ‘imprisonment’ or ‘prison’ for violations of the family planning policy,” the report said. “Among them, OHCHR interviewed some women who said they were forced to have abortions or forced to have IUDs inserted after they had reached the number of children allowed under the family planning policy. These first-hand accounts, though limited in number, are considered reliable.’ In the report, Bachelet, a former president of Chile, noted that the average sterilization rate per 100,000 people in China as a whole was just over 32. In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region it was 243. “Serious violations of human rights have been committed [the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] as part of implementing the government’s counter-terrorism and ‘extremism’ strategy,” the report said. “These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory element, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities.” The report calls on the Chinese government to “immediately take measures to release all persons who were arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” in Xinjiang and “urgently clarify the whereabouts of persons whose families sought information about their loved ones.” Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The UN Human Rights Council should use the report to launch a comprehensive investigation into the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and others – and hold those responsible to account.”
title: “China S Treatment Of Uyghurs May Be A Crime Against Humanity Says Un Human Rights Chief China Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-09” author: “David Gordon”
Bachelet’s damning report was published just 11 minutes before her term ends at midnight Geneva time. Publication was delayed by the eleventh-hour delivery of an official Chinese response containing names and photographs of individuals to be barred from the UN Commissioner’s office for privacy and security reasons. The Chinese government, which tried until the last minute to stop publication of the report, dismissed it as defamation against China, while Uyghur human rights groups hailed it as a turning point in the international response to the mass incarceration program. The 45-page report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concludes: “The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim groups, under law and policy, in the context of restrictions and deprivations more generally of the fundamental rights we enjoy individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity’. The Chinese government, which tried until the last minute to stop publication of the report, said in an official response that it was “based on misinformation and lies fabricated by anti-Chinese forces” and that it “slanders and slanders unintentionally” China. and interfered in the internal affairs of the country. Omer Kanat, the executive director of the lobby group the Uyghur Human Rights Program, said Bachelet’s report was “a game changer for the international response to the Uyghur crisis.” “Despite persistent denials by the Chinese government, the UN has now officially acknowledged that horrific crimes are taking place,” Kanat said. Over the past five years, China has herded about a million Uyghurs and other minority groups into internment camps it has called training centers. Some of the centers have since been closed, but hundreds of thousands more are believed to be still incarcerated. In several hundred cases the families had no idea about the fate of their relatives who had been detained. Of the 26 former detainees interviewed by UN investigators, two-thirds “reported having been subjected to treatment that would amount to torture and/or other forms of ill-treatment.” Abuses described included beatings with electric batons while tied to a “tiger chair” (in which prisoners are tied by the hands and feet), prolonged solitary confinement, as well as what appeared to be a form of sea, “subjective interrogation with water pouring on their faces.” The US and some other countries have said the mass imprisonment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, the destruction of mosques and communities, and forced abortions and sterilizations amounts to genocide. The UN report does not mention genocide, but says allegations of torture, including forced medical procedures, and sexual violence were all “credible”. It said authorities considered breaches of the official three-child family size limit to be a sign of “extremism”, leading to incarceration. “Many women interviewed by OHCHR made allegations of forced birth control, particularly forced IUDs [intrauterine device] placements and possible forced sterilizations in relation to Uyghur and Kazakh women. Some women spoke of the risk of harsh punishments, including ‘imprisonment’ or ‘prison’ for violations of the family planning policy,” the report said. “Among them, OHCHR interviewed some women who said they were forced to have abortions or forced to have IUDs inserted after they had reached the number of children allowed under the family planning policy. These first-hand accounts, though limited in number, are considered reliable.’ In the report, Bachelet, a former president of Chile, noted that the average sterilization rate per 100,000 people in China as a whole was just over 32. In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region it was 243. “Serious violations of human rights have been committed [the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] as part of implementing the government’s counter-terrorism and ‘extremism’ strategy,” the report said. “These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory element, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities.” The report calls on the Chinese government to “immediately take measures to release all persons who were arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” in Xinjiang and “urgently clarify the whereabouts of persons whose families sought information about their loved ones.” Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The UN Human Rights Council should use the report to launch a comprehensive investigation into the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and others – and hold those responsible to account.”
title: “China S Treatment Of Uyghurs May Be A Crime Against Humanity Says Un Human Rights Chief China Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-16” author: “David Fowler”
Bachelet’s damning report was published just 11 minutes before her term ends at midnight Geneva time. Publication was delayed by the eleventh-hour delivery of an official Chinese response containing names and photographs of individuals to be barred from the UN Commissioner’s office for privacy and security reasons. The Chinese government, which tried until the last minute to stop publication of the report, dismissed it as defamation against China, while Uyghur human rights groups hailed it as a turning point in the international response to the mass incarceration program. The 45-page report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concludes: “The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim groups, under law and policy, in the context of restrictions and deprivations more generally of the fundamental rights we enjoy individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity’. The Chinese government, which tried until the last minute to stop publication of the report, said in an official response that it was “based on misinformation and lies fabricated by anti-Chinese forces” and that it “slanders and slanders unintentionally” China. and interfered in the internal affairs of the country. Omer Kanat, the executive director of the lobby group the Uyghur Human Rights Program, said Bachelet’s report was “a game changer for the international response to the Uyghur crisis.” “Despite persistent denials by the Chinese government, the UN has now officially acknowledged that horrific crimes are taking place,” Kanat said. Over the past five years, China has herded about a million Uyghurs and other minority groups into internment camps it has called training centers. Some of the centers have since been closed, but hundreds of thousands more are believed to be still incarcerated. In several hundred cases the families had no idea about the fate of their relatives who had been detained. Of the 26 former detainees interviewed by UN investigators, two-thirds “reported having been subjected to treatment that would amount to torture and/or other forms of ill-treatment.” Abuses described included beatings with electric batons while tied to a “tiger chair” (in which prisoners are tied by the hands and feet), prolonged solitary confinement, as well as what appeared to be a form of sea, “subjective interrogation with water pouring on their faces.” The US and some other countries have said the mass imprisonment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang, the destruction of mosques and communities, and forced abortions and sterilizations amounts to genocide. The UN report does not mention genocide, but says allegations of torture, including forced medical procedures, and sexual violence were all “credible”. It said authorities considered breaches of the official three-child family size limit to be a sign of “extremism”, leading to incarceration. “Many women interviewed by OHCHR made allegations of forced birth control, particularly forced IUDs [intrauterine device] placements and possible forced sterilizations in relation to Uyghur and Kazakh women. Some women spoke of the risk of harsh punishments, including ‘imprisonment’ or ‘prison’ for violations of the family planning policy,” the report said. “Among them, OHCHR interviewed some women who said they were forced to have abortions or forced to have IUDs inserted after they had reached the number of children allowed under the family planning policy. These first-hand accounts, though limited in number, are considered reliable.’ In the report, Bachelet, a former president of Chile, noted that the average sterilization rate per 100,000 people in China as a whole was just over 32. In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region it was 243. “Serious violations of human rights have been committed [the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] as part of implementing the government’s counter-terrorism and ‘extremism’ strategy,” the report said. “These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory element, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities.” The report calls on the Chinese government to “immediately take measures to release all persons who were arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” in Xinjiang and “urgently clarify the whereabouts of persons whose families sought information about their loved ones.” Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The UN Human Rights Council should use the report to launch a comprehensive investigation into the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and others – and hold those responsible to account.”
