GENEVA—A U.N. committee said on Monday it was concerned about the Chinese communist regime’s treatment of its Muslim minority, including the use of forced labor against Uyghurs, in a sweeping report that adds pressure on Beijing to improve its human rights record.
The findings by the group of U.N.-appointed independent experts follow a series of Geneva hearings last month where rights groups raised a range of topics including the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) COVID-19 policies, treatment of human rights defenders, and its Muslim minority.
Last year, a report by the U.N. human rights chief said the CCP’s treatment of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers around 10 million in Xinjiang, in the country’s far west, may constitute crimes against humanity….