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U.N. review puts spotlight on China's treatment of ethnic minorities

A routine examination by the U.N. Human Rights Council looked at Chinese crackdowns on Uyghurs and Tibetans.

A U.N. review looks at China's crackdown on Uyghurs and Tibetans.
A U.N. review looks at China's crackdown on Uyghurs and Tibetans. (AN/李大毛 没有猫/Unsplash)

GENEVA (AN) — The U.N. Human Rights Council put China's record under a microscope, pressuring the powerful Asian nation to respect ethnic minorities and allow citizens more basic freedoms.

The 47-nation council's routine examination of China, part of its Universal Periodic Review, or UPR process, focused on China's detention and reeducation camps for at least 1 million Uyghur Muslims and its longstanding crackdown on another ethnic minority, Tibetans.

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