UN split on China’s Uighur rights record
China’s mass detention and surveillance of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang province came under fire at the United Nations Tuesday, with 23 nations -- mostly western -- backing a British statement condemning Beijing’s human rights record. But China’s allies countered with a statement of their own that won even broader support, with some 54 nations, including Pakistan, Russia, Egypt, backing a Belarus text that heaped effusive praise on Beijing’s “remarkable achievements in the field of human rights.”
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