{"id":785023,"date":"2022-09-01T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/lawyer-criticises-un-reports-failure-to-call-uyghur-oppression-genocide"},"modified":"2022-09-01T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:27:34","slug":"lawyer-criticises-un-reports-failure-to-call-uyghur-oppression-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/01\/lawyer-criticises-un-reports-failure-to-call-uyghur-oppression-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer criticises UN report\u2019s failure to call Uyghur oppression \u2018genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Geoffrey Nice QC says outgoing human rights chief\u2019s report on China makes it easier for international community to do nothing<\/p>\n<p>The UN\u2019s failure to mention the word genocide in its report alleging serious human rights violations by China against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province is an \u201castonishing\u201d lapse, according to a leading British human rights lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-page report from the outgoing UN human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, landed minutes before her term ended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/china-uyghur-muslims-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-un\">on Wednesday<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/uyghurs-subjected-to-genocide-by-china-unofficial-uk-tribunal-finds\">,<\/a> outlining allegations of torture, including forced medical procedures, as well as sexual violence against Uyghur Muslims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/lawyer-criticises-un-reports-failure-to-call-uyghur-oppression-genocide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Geoffrey Nice QC says outgoing human rights chief\u2019s report on China makes it easier for international community to do nothingThe UN\u2019s failure to mention the word genocide in its report alleging serious human rights violations by China against Uyghu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,6,1331,640,105,1,111,1641,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785023"}],"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\/22535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785649,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785023\/revisions\/785649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}