A UN anti-discrimination committee raised concerns over China's treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority, citing reports of mass detentions as it considered Beijing's record over recent years.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination started reviewing China's report in Geneva yesterday. Chinese delegation leader Yu Jianhua highlighted economic progress and rising living standards among other things.
Committee vice-chairwoman Gay McDougall said members are "deeply concerned" by "numerous and credible reports that we have received that, in the name of combating religious extremism and maintaining social stability, (China) has turned the Uighur autonomous region into something that resembles a massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy."
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