China, for the UN “possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang”

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, released a report on alleged violations that the Chinese government allegedly committed against the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region. In its 48 pages, the UN report, released a few minutes before the end of Bachelet’s mandate, highlights the “credible” evidence of the human rights violations that China allegedly committed in the northwestern region against the Muslim minority. . Specifically, this report – which has been in preparation for three years – ensures that “serious human rights violations” have been committed as part of the implementation of the anti-terrorist and anti-extremism strategies approved by the Chinese government in 2014. “The application of these strategies and associated policies in the Xinjiang Special Administrative Region has led to severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights,” says the document released by Bachelet. “These models of restrictions – he adds – are characterized by a discriminatory component, since the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim communities.” The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights described the anti-terrorism strategies of the China in the region as “deeply problematic” from the perspective of international standards, as they would contain “vague, broad and open concepts that leave great discretion to officials to interpret and apply broad powers of investigation, prevention and coercion.” Also, according to the report , “in a context of limited safeguards and poor independent surveillance,” such a framework would effectively lead to the arbitrary deprivation of liberty on a large scale of members of the Uyghur community and other predominantly Muslim communities in Xinjiang in the Vetc (the centers of education and vocational training), where the Chinese regime “re-educates” the Uighurs, through “an arbitrary detention system with models of abuse”.