(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) – A United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee has heard there are credible reports that China is holding a million Uighurs in “Counter-extremism centres”.
Gay McDougall, a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, raised the claims at a two-day UN meeting on China.
She said she was concerned by reports that Beijing had “Turned the Uighur autonomous region into something that resembles a massive internment camp”.
China did not immediately respond.
Its 50-strong delegation said it would address questions on Monday, when the session in Geneva continues.
Beijing has previously denied the existence of such camps.
