UN members split on China's Uighur rights record

China's mass detention and surveillance of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang province came under fire at the United Nations Tuesday, with 23 nations -- mostly western -- backing a British statement condemning Beijing's human rights record.

But China's allies countered with a statement of their own that won even broader support, with some 54 nations backing a Belarus text that heaped effusive praise on Beijing's "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights."
Beijing on Wednesday blasted the British statement on its human rights record, saying that the "anti-China performance by a small number of Western countries ended in humiliating failure."