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Allow UN human rights chief to visit Xinjiang, Antonio Guterres tells China
Campaigners say that at least one million mostly Muslim minorities have been incarcerated in "re-education camps" in the region, something which China denies.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told leaders in Beijing he expects them to allow UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to make a “credible” visit to China including a stop in the troubled Xinjiang region.
- AFP – SBS
He met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics, according to a readout of their talks.
The UN chief “expressed his expectation that the contacts between the office of the…