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Outgoing UN rights chief releases controversial Xinjiang report on her final day


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(CNN)Against China's wishes, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday released a much-anticipated report on China's treatment of Uyghur and other Muslim minority peoples in its northwestern Xinjiang region.

The report concludes that "serious human rights violations have been committed" in the region, which it attributes to Beijing's "application of counter-terrorism and counter-'extremism' strategies" targeting Uyghur and other mainly Muslim communities.
 
"Allegations of patterns of torture or ill-treatment, including forced medical treatment and adverse conditions of detention, are credible, as are allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence," it says.
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