New Delhi: The United Nations on Wednesday released its report about the horrific human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region of China. Which the world was waiting for a long time. The United Nations Human Rights Office has said in its 48-page report that the methods China is adopting to repress Uighur Muslims could be “potential crimes against humanity”. However, the report did not call it genocide. The report details a range of human rights violations against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s far-western region.
According to a Times of India report, the UN report has long served to stamp out allegations by human rights groups and Western countries that large sections of the Uighur community have been kept in exile. The UN report says that China has taken many measures to persecute the Uighurs. Which acts like tying on a tiger chair, beating, raping, and giving drugs. The UN Human Rights Office said in its 48-page report that the Chinese government’s implementation of counter-terrorism and “counter-extremism” strategies has caused “serious human rights violations” in Xinjiang.
The United Nations Human Rights Office has said in its report that the Chinese government has arbitrarily imprisoned a large number of people in Xinjiang. The slightest suspicion of someone’s behavior is enough to land him in jail. The use of tiger chairs to torture prisoners is common. In this chair, people’s hands and feet are tied and beaten up. Apart from this, China’s intelligence system keeps constant intelligence surveillance on the Uyghur people. Due to this, it has become difficult for them to live independently.
The United Nations Human Rights Office has said in its report that China is arbitrarily trying methods of treatment on people kept in captivity. Due to this occurrence of weakness and weight gain is common in prisoners. It was also said that such medicines are being given deliberately to the prisoners, due to which they increase lethargy. Along with this, methods of rape and other types of sexual violence are tried especially with female prisoners.
Full report: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf
