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Editorial: The world must unite to condemn China’s human rights abuses

A UN report has exposed the abuse of Uyghur Muslim people in Chinese detention centres in terrible detail – and the international community, from world leaders to businesses, must do all in its power to force China’s hand

Hong Kong protest in support of the Uyghur minority in 2019. Since allegations of the mass imprisonment of Uyghur Muslim people in the Chinese province of Xinjiang first emerged in 2017, China has undertaken a campaign of denial and intimidation to dismiss them as false. Picture: AFP

Since allegations of the mass imprisonment of Uyghur Muslim people in the Chinese province of Xinjiang first emerged in 2017, China has undertaken a campaign of denial and intimidation to dismiss them as false. This was despite mounting evidence of human rights abuses and testimony from Uyghur representatives and former inmates of the Chinese Communist Party’s very own gulag.

Now China is running out of excuses. The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for ...