UN counterterrorism chief makes controversy trip to Xinjiang | World News, The Indian Express

UN counterterrorism chief makes controversy trip to Xinjiang | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |Beijing |Published: June 16, 2019 10:50:30 am

UN counterterrorism chief makes controversy trip to Xinjiang

The US, researchers and rights groups estimate that as many as 1 million ethnic Muslims may be arbitrarily detained in Xinjiang, home to the Uighur and Kazakh minority groups.

FILE – In this Nov. 3, 2017, file photo, residents walk through a security checkpoint into the Hotan Bazaar where a screen shows Chinese President Xi Jinping in Hotan in western China’s Xinjiang region. China says the U.N.’s counterterrorism chief visited Xinjiang last week despite protests from the U.S. and a rights group that the trip would be inappropriate in light of the human rights conditions in the far west region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China says the UN counterterrorism chief has visited Xinjiang last week despite protests from the US and a rights group that the trip would be inappropriate in light of the human rights conditions in the far west region.