GENEVA — Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Monday denounced torture, forced labor, and sterilizations that he said were taking place against Muslim Uighurs on an “industrialscale” inChina’sXinjiangregion.
Activists and U.N. rights experts have said that at least 1 million Muslims are detained in camps in the remote western region. China has deniedabusesand said its camps provide vocational training and are needed to fight extremism.
Raab, in a recorded speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council, likewise said the rights of people in Hong Kong – a former British colony – were being “systematically violated.” The national security law imposed by China was inhibiting free…
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