China said on Thursday that a major United Nations report on alleged human rights violations in the Xinjiang region was a “political tool” against Beijing.
A long-awaited report by the UN human rights office said allegations of torture in the far western region were credible and cited possible crimes against humanity.
“The so-called critical report you mentioned is planned and fabricated first-hand by the US and some Western forces, it is totally illegal and invalid,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a briefing. regular
“The report is a hodgepodge of misinformation and is a political tool used as part of the West’s strategy to use Xinjiang to control China,” he added.
Wang said the UN rights office had “sunk into (becoming) the bully and accomplice of the US and the West against the vast majority of developing countries”.
For years, China has been accused of detaining more than a million Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang.
Beijing has vehemently rejected the claims, insisting it runs vocational centers designed to curb extremism.
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