The UN human rights chief has met China’s top diplomat as she began a six-day trip to the country that will include the remote Xinjiang region, where Uighurs and other Muslim minorities face repression.
The tour by Michelle Bachelet, which started on Monday, marks the first by the UN’s top rights official to China in nearly two decades and comes as Beijing stands accused of widespread abuses of Muslims in far-western Xinjiang.
Bachelet, a former president of Chile, plans to speak with high-level national and local officials, civil society organisations, business representatives and academics, and deliver a lecture to students at Guangzhou University, her office said.
The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is alleged to have detained more than one million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities there under a years-long security crackdown the United States calls a “genocide”.
China vociferously denies the accusations, calling them...
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