Beijing: China has agreed to let the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visit Xinjiang in the first half of 2022 after the Beijing Winter Olympics, according to a report at the South China Post that quoted unnamed sources.
Rights groups have accused China to violate Windercale against Uyghur and other minority groups in the western region of Xinjiang, including mass detention, torture and forced labor.
The United States accused China genocide.
Beijing denies all accusations of abuse of Uyghurs and other Turkish Muslims and has described its policies as needed to combat religious extremism.
UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has pursued negotiations with China during a visit since September 2018.
China Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China’s mission to the United Nations in New York, and the United Nations did not immediately respond to a comment request.
South China Morning Report on Thursday Kitting Source said that the approval for a visit after the Beijing winter game conclusion, which runs 4-20 February, given to the travel conditions must be “friendly” and not framed as an investigation.
As in 2008, the Olympics have put the spotlight on the records of Chinese human rights, which critics have deteriorated since then, lead Washington to mention Beijing’s treatment of Uyghur genocide Muslims and encourage diplomatic boycott from the United States and other countries.
“No one, especially the world’s leading human rights diplomats, must be fooled by the efforts of the Chinese government to divert the attention of his crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and other Turkish communities,” said China Director at Human Rights Watch, told Reuters in the email statement Friday.