The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends her final news conference before the end of her mandate at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, on Aug 25, 2022.China's "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday .
She recommended the Chinese government to take prompt steps to release all those detained in training centres, prisons or detentions facilities. Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses against Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers around 10 million in the western region of Xinjiang, including the mass use of forced labour in internment camps.Speaking ahead of the report's release, China's ambassador to the UN in New York, Zhang Jun, said Beijing had repeatedly voiced opposition to it.