UN report on Xianjang: outrage and sharp criticism from China

“Completely illegal and invalid”: After the publication of the Xinjiang report by UN Human Rights Commissioner Bachelet, China sharply rejected the allegations. China is accused of serious human rights violations.

China reacted with sharp criticism to the UN report on serious human rights violations in the Xinjiang region. In reality, the report was “backed by the United States and some other Western forces,” and said it was “completely illegal and invalid,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in Beijing.

Beijing: “hodgepodge of misinformation”

He called the report “a hodgepodge of misinformation.” Behind the report of the UN Human Rights Commission is the strategy of the West to “control China” with the help of the Xinjiang issue, Wang said. The aim of the West is to isolate China through “political manipulation”. He accused the UN Commission of having made itself the “handy and accomplice of the United States and the West against the emerging countries”.

UN report: “Credible” allegations of systematic torture

UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet published the report on the situation of Muslims in Xinjiang on Thursday night shortly before the end of her term in office. The 46-page assessment speaks of “credible” allegations of systematic torture, forced labor and rape in detention centers in Xinjiang. The treatment of the Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups in the name of countering extremism could constitute “crimes against humanity”.

Detainees have reported cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. If people were detained arbitrarily and discriminatoryly, it could constitute “crimes against humanity,” the United Nations report said. The international community must “urgently” deal with the human rights situation in Xinjiang.

Berlin demands the immediate release of all those imprisoned in Xinjiang

After the UN report on the human rights situation in Xinjiang, the federal government demanded the immediate release of all those imprisoned there. “We call on the Chinese government to immediately grant all people in Xinjiang their full human rights,” said a spokesman for the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. “All those arbitrarily detained must be released immediately.”

In addition, the Federal Foreign Office called on the Chinese government to “allow further independent clarification of these allegations of the most serious violations of human rights in China”.

For years, China has been confronted with allegations of systematically oppressing the Uyghurs in Xinjiang and using them as forced labourers. China has always firmly denied this.

With information from Benjamin Eyssel, ARD studio Beijing