A report by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, published on 31 August 2022, assessing allegations of serious human rights violations against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, including arbitrary detention, torture and forced labour. It concluded that the extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity, while stopping short of using the word genocide.
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Reliability TierThe United Nations human rights office's own official assessment, the same reliability class as the UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission report on Myanmar already cited elsewhere in the atlas: a primary institutional finding, not independent academic scholarship, and published only as the outgoing High Commissioner left office, which the report itself has been criticized in some quarters for delaying. NotesThe United Nations human rights office's own official assessment, the same reliability class as the UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission report on Myanmar already cited elsewhere in the atlas: a primary institutional finding, not independent academic scholarship, and published only as the outgoing High Commissioner left office, which the report itself has been criticized in some quarters for delaying. 1 Citation
AuthorUnited Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 1 PublisherUnited Nations Human Rights Office 1 Publication Year Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names China directly: "the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, including arbitrary detention, torture and forced labour."
This source names Uyghurs directly: "human rights violations against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim communities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, including arbitrary detention, torture and forced labour."
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- Religious Events, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Open Questions, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Spread Events, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Cultures, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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