China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations

China warned United Nations delegates not to attend a panel event on human rights violations in Xinjiang last month, where Beijing faced criticism for detaining a reported million ethnic minority people in extrajudicial “reeducation” centres. The panel event was jointly hosted by the United States, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom on March 13, during the last UN Human Rights Council session held between February 25 and March 22. The UN says a million Uighurs have been arbitrarily detained in extralegal “political reeducation camps,” whilst Human Rights Watch reports that surveillance and repression in Xinjiang has increased dramatically since 2016.

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