US Urges UN To Release Report On China's Uyghur Muslims Before Winter Olympics
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US officials said that publishing the report before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics begin would "reaffirm the fact that no country is beyond scrutiny or above international law".
US lawmakers Tuesday called on the UN human rights chief to release a report on Xinjiang, where Washington accuses China of perpetrating a genocide against minority Uyghur Muslims, before the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Publishing the report before the Games begin February 4 would "reaffirm the fact that no country is beyond scrutiny or above international law," said Senator Jeff Merkley and Representative James McGovern, the top Democrats leading the Congressional Executive Committee on China.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, the former Chilean president, has been asking Beijing for "meaningful and unhindered access" to Xinjiang for years, but no such visit has so far been made possible.
In mid-December, a spokesman for the high commissioner had indicated that a report could however be published in "a few weeks."
