The top human rights representative has been urged to investigate allegations that China pursued a policy of firing to kill Uighur Muslim prisoners who tried to escape their brutal “re-education” camps.
UN Commissioner Michelle Bachelet is on a six-day trip to China to coincide with the release of a cache of official documents that were hacked into police computers and leaked online. There are widespread allegations of forced detention and other abuses at the heart of China’s top-secret mass imprisonment system in the western Xinjiang region.
According to documents, President Xi himself ordered the expansion of the facilities to accommodate up to two million people.
Thousands of photos reveal detainees of all ages, some arrested because a family member had “religious leanings,” others for installing encrypted apps.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is under pressure from lawmakers to declare the situation difficult