{"id":48052,"date":"2022-09-01T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/china-uyghur-muslims-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-un"},"modified":"2022-09-01T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:44:18","slug":"chinas-treatment-of-uyghurs-may-be-crime-against-humanity-says-un-human-rights-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48052","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s treatment of Uyghurs may be crime against humanity, says UN human rights chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet issues report minutes before her term ends, detailing \u2018credible\u2019 reports of torture, forced sterilization and internment<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing UN human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, has said that China had committed \u201cserious human rights violations\u201d against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province which may amount to crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Bachelet\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/countries\/2022-08-31\/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf\">damning report<\/a> was published with only 11 minutes to go before her term came to an end at midnight Geneva time. Publication was delayed by the eleventh-hour delivery of an official Chinese response that contained names and pictures of individuals that had to be blacked out by the UN commissioner\u2019s office for privacy and safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/china-uyghur-muslims-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet issues report minutes before her term ends, detailing \u2018credible\u2019 reports of torture, forced sterilization and internmentThe outgoing UN human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, has said that China had committed \u201cserious human rig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"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":[41,50,84,47,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-united-nations","category-us-news","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\/48052","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48079,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48052\/revisions\/48079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}