The report comes four years after a United Nations expert committee drew attention to “credible reports” that more than 1 million Uighurs and other Muslim minority peoples were interned in extrajudicial camps in Xinjiang, northwest China, for “re-education” and indoctrination.
China initially denied the camps existed, later said it had established “vocational education and training centers” as a way of combating “extremism”. Beijing called allegations of rights violations, genocide and forced labor in the region “the lie of the century”.
In May, during Bachelet’s official trip to China — the first by a senior UN human rights official in 17 years, for which she came under heavy criticism — she said the government assured her that the system of “professional and training center” had been “dismantled.”
The report was released at the end of Bachelet’s last day in office.
*This is a developing story
Source: CNN Brasil
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