UN rights envoy defends controversial China visit

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BEIJING: The UN rights envoy on Saturday (May 28) said her contentious visit to China was \u0022not an investigation\u0022, and insisted she had unsupervised access during meetings in Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of widespread human rights abuses. Michelle Bachelet\u0027s long-planned trip this week has taken

BEIJING: The UN rights envoy on Saturday said her contentious visit to China was"not an investigation", and insisted she had unsupervised access during meetings in Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of widespread human rights abuses.

Bachelet has come under fire from rights groups and Uyghurs overseas, who say she has stumbled into a six-day Communist Party propaganda tour, including aHer office later clarified that her remarks did not contain a direct endorsement of China's rights record. It is the first trip to China by the UN's top rights envoy in 17 years and comes after painstaking negotiations over the conditions of her visit, which the UN says is neither a fact-finding mission nor a probe.

 

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