UN counter-terror czar visits China’s Xinjiang 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseThe UN’s counter-terrorism czar is on a visit this week to China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing insists one million Uighurs and other Muslims are detained because of a terrorism threat, UN sources and rights activists said Thursday. Vladimir Voronkov, the under-secretary general for counter-terrorism, is the highest level UN official to visit Xinjiang, which activists have described as an open air prison, deprived of religious freedom. Haq stressed that the UN counter-terrorism office works to ensure that measures used to fight terror respect human rights. Guterres told Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that “human rights must be fully respected in the fight against terrorism,” according to the UN.

Source: Manila Bulletin June 14, 2019 01:07 UTC