UN counter-terror tsar visits Xinjiang where Uighurs held in huge numbers

Activists say official visit risks affirming China’s narrative that camps thought to hold a million people are not an abuse of human rights

The UN’s counter-terrorism tsar is on a visit this week to China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing insists the estimated 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims it is detaining constitute a potential terrorist threat.

Vladimir Voronkov, the under-secretary general for counter-terrorism, is the highest level UN official to visit Xinjiang, which activists have described as an open-air prison where people are deprived of religious freedom.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2wRw9k7