China has dismissed multinational recommendations to end its mass detention of Muslim ethnic groups during a UN review of its human rights record, calling the recommendations devoid of fact.
Since early 2017, China has stepped up its crackdown on the Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group native to the western region of Xinjiang that has long pushed back against Chinese Communist party rule. A UN panel in August estimated that 1m to 3m of the region’s 11m Uighurs were being held in some form of detention.
A split emerged among UN member countries on whether to address the detentions during China’s universal periodic review (UPR), held once every four years, in front of UN Human Rights Council member states this week.
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