{"id":664031,"date":"2022-05-20T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/20\/un-human-rights-commissioner-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-criticised"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T15:34:09","slug":"un-human-rights-commissioner-criticised-over-planned-xinjiang-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/20\/un-human-rights-commissioner-criticised-over-planned-xinjiang-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"UN human rights commissioner criticised over planned Xinjiang visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Politicians accuse China of organising a \u2018Potemkin-style tour\u2019 for Michelle Bachelet<\/p><p>A group of 40 politicians from 18 countries have told the UN high commissioner for human rights that she risks causing lasting damage to the credibility of her office if she goes ahead with a visit to China\u2019s Xinjiang region next week.<\/p><p>Michelle Bachelet is scheduled to visit Kashgar and \u00dcr\u00fcmqi in Xinjiang during her trip, which starts on Monday. Human rights organisations say China has forced an estimated 1 million or more people into internment camps and prisons in the region. The US and a number of other western countries have described China\u2019s treatment of the Uyghur minority living there as genocidal, a charge Beijing calls the \u201clie of the century\u201d.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/20\/un-human-rights-commissioner-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-criticised\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/20\/un-human-rights-commissioner-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-criticised\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Politicians accuse China of organising a \u2018Potemkin-style tour\u2019 for Michelle BacheletA group of 40 politicians from 18 countries have told the UN high commissioner for human rights that she risks causing lasting damage to the credibility of h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,6,9879,105,111,1315,1641,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664032,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664031\/revisions\/664032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}