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China's Mass Incarceration of Uyghurs Overshadows UN Council Agenda

By Lisa Schlein September 11, 2022

China's mass incarceration of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities is not on the U.N. Human Rights Council's packed agenda for its session starting Monday. However, the controversial policy threatens to overshadow all the other issues to be examined during the council's monthlong session.

Human rights activists are clamoring for China to be held accountable for its alleged systematic, widespread abuse of more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

These calls have grown more insistent since the publication August 31 of a long-awaited U.N. report accusing China of torture or ill-treatment and other violations that could amount to crimes against humanity.

China's mass incarceration of Uyghur and other Muslim minorities is not on the U.N. Human Rights Council's packed agenda for its session starting Monday. However, the controversial policy threatens to overshadow all the other issues to be examined during the council's monthlong session.

Human rights activists are clamoring for China to be held accountable for its alleged systematic, widespread abuse of more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

These calls have grown more insistent since the publication August 31 of a long-awaited U.N. report accusing China of torture or ill-treatment and other violations that could amount to crimes against humanity.