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Sat May 21, 2022, 04:59 AM May 2022

United Nations to inspect Uighers human rights situation.

Biden goes to South Korea

UN Human Rights chief to Xinjiang to see Uighers.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14626446

Excerpt:

--The United Nations' top human rights official will visit China next week on a trip that will take her to the Xinjiang region, where rights groups and some Western governments allege the Chinese government is committing genocide and serious abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will start her six-day visit on Monday, her office said Friday. She will visit Guangzhou, Kashgar and the Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi.
It will be the first such visit to China by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005, Bachelet's office said. She plans to speak with high-level national and local officials, civil society organizations, business representatives and academics, and deliver a lecture to students at Guangzhou University.

A five-member advance team arrived in China on April 25 to prepare for Bachelet's visit, traveling to Guangzhou and Xinjiang

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