{"id":45300,"date":"2022-06-09T14:24:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/fury-at-un-human-rights-chief-over-whitewash-of-uyghur-repression"},"modified":"2022-06-09T14:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:24:44","slug":"fury-at-un-human-rights-chief-over-whitewash-of-uyghur-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45300","title":{"rendered":"Fury at UN human rights chief over \u2018whitewash\u2019 of Uyghur repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open letter signed by academics in wake of Michelle Bachelet\u2019s China visit demands release of UN report on human rights abuses<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of scholars have accused the UN human rights chief of having ignored or contradicted academic findings on abuses in Xinjiang with her statements on the region.<\/p>\n<p>In an<a href=\"https:\/\/jimmillward.medium.com\/international-academic-signatories-of-the-open-letter-regarding-uh-high-commissioner-for-human-4c05a2cb309e\"> open letter<\/a> published this week, 39 academics from across Europe, the US and Australia called on Michelle Bachelet to release a long-awaited UN report on human rights abuses in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/fury-at-un-human-rights-chief-over-whitewash-of-uyghur-repression\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open letter signed by academics in wake of Michelle Bachelet\u2019s China visit demands release of UN report on human rights abusesDozens of scholars have accused the UN human rights chief of having ignored or contradicted academic findings on abuses in Xin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[50,53,84,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-human-rights","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\/45300","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45301,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45300\/revisions\/45301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}