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The UN accused China of serious human rights violations against its Uyghur Muslim population that may amount to “crimes against humanity,” according to a 48-page report published by the organization’s Human Rights Council late Wednesday.
📝 A deeper dive… Human rights groups have accused Beijing of detaining more than a million Uyghurs in the Xinjiang province over the past five years, where many have said they’re tortured, sexually assaulted, forcibly sterilized, and compelled to abandon their language and religion.
The UN’s report mostly confirms previous coverage of the issue.
🇨🇳 On the flip side: China has maintained the camps in Xinjiang are actually voluntary training centers, where Uyghurs are “educated” to combat extremism. In the wake of the UN’s report, Beijing called it “disinformation and lies fabricated by anti-China forces,” and published a 131-page “counter-report.”
🌏 A Saudi Arabian court sentenced a woman to 45 years in prison for social media activity, Pakistan is still underwater, and Russia is toying with gas flows to Europe… again.
🌍 Germany is cracking down on money laundering, the UK is about to have an expensive winter, and the US and China have reached an agreement allowing American regulators to access audits of Chinese companies traded in the US.
🗾 Japan will restart more idled nuclear power plants and explore the idea of developing next-gen reactors for future use, per a gov’t announcement on Wed., marking a major energy policy shift for the island nation.
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