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China restricting basic freedoms on pretext of national security: UN Rights chief
- United Nations Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet has said that China is restricting basic civil and political freedoms in the name of national security and COVID-19 measures.
- Bachelet told the Human Rights Council that activists, lawyers, and human rights defenders as well as some foreign nationals face arbitrary criminal charges, detention or unfair trials in China.
- Referring to China’s Xinjiang region, Bachelet cited the reports about arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, sexual violence, and forced labour.
