{"id":44756,"date":"2022-05-23T21:26:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/un-human-rights-commissioner-michelle-bachelet-china-visit-xinjiang"},"modified":"2022-05-24T04:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T19:00:03","slug":"un-rights-chiefs-visit-to-china-will-be-held-in-closed-loop-beijing-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44756","title":{"rendered":"UN rights chief\u2019s visit to China will be held in \u2018closed loop\u2019, Beijing says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet begins trip amid fears that authorities will use Covid restrictions as cover to limit her access<\/p>\n<p>China has said the UN rights chief\u2019s visit to the country this week will be conducted in a \u201cclosed loop\u201d as previously agreed with the UN, referring to the Chinese model of isolating people inside a \u201cbubble\u201d in order to contain the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, embarked on a six-day trip to China on Monday. She will be visiting the southern city of Guangzhou and two locations in the Xinjiang region, where Chinese authorities have been accused of human rights abuses against Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/un-human-rights-commissioner-michelle-bachelet-china-visit-xinjiang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet begins trip amid fears that authorities will use Covid restrictions as cover to limit her accessChina has said the UN rights chief\u2019s visit to the country this week will be conducted in a \u201cclosed loop\u201d as previously agreed with the UN,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1926,84,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-michelle-bachelet","category-united-nations","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44765,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756\/revisions\/44765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}