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The UN human rights commissioner began a six-day trip to China on Monday. She will visit the remote Xinjiang region, stirring fears about the propaganda value of the visit to the Chinese Communist Party.

Michelle Bachelet begins trip amid fears that authorities will use Covid restrictions as cover to limit her access

Michelle Bachelet’s visit marks the first trip to China by a UN human rights commissioner since 2005.

Exclusive: Politicians accuse China of organising a ‘Potemkin-style tour’ for Michelle Bachelet

The United Nations’ top human rights official will visit China next week on a trip that will take her to the Xinjiang region, where rights groups and some Western governments allege the Chinese government is committing genocide and serious abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities

A list obtained and partially verified by the Associated Press cites the names of more than 10,000 Uyghurs who have been sent to prison in just Konasheher county alone, one of dozens in southern Xinjiang.

In oasis towns and villages by the desert in China’s far west Xinjiang region, over 10,000 Uyghurs have vanished – ripped from their families and sentenced to years, even decades in prison on vague, secretive charges

In oasis towns and villages by the desert in China’s far west Xinjiang region, over 10,000 Uyghurs have vanished – ripped from their families and sentenced to years, even decades in prison on vague, secretive charges

A leaked list of thousands of detained Uyghurs has helped Nursimangul Abdureshid shed some light on the whereabouts of her missing family members, who have disappeared in China's sweeping crackdown on Xinjiang. Researchers estimate over one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in a secretive network…