Published on 12:00 AM, January 18, 2021
UK demands China grant UN access to Xinjiang over abuses
Afp, London
Britain's government yesterday pressed China to allow UN rights inspectors to visit Xinjiang after raising anew allegations of "appalling" human rights abuses against the Uighur minority people.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab last week introduced import controls on firms that may have sourced goods from the region in northwest China using forced labour from the mainly Muslim Uighur community.
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