Beijing has reported the Australian government to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), claiming it is “deeply concerned” by Australia’s use of offshore detention centres for asylum seekers. The move, which demonstrates a change of tactic in Beijing’s coercive diplomacy, comes as a new report (pdf) by the U.S.-based Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy revealed that Beijing has breached every provision of the United Nations Genocide Convention in its persecution of the Uyghur minority. On Friday, Beijing issued a statement to the UNHRC alleging that the Australia offshore detention centres failed to provide “adequate medical conditions” to detainees and their human rights were being violated. “We urge Australia to immediately close down all offshore detention centres and take concrete steps to protect the rights of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, especially children,” the statement read, according to Reuters. Beijing also called on Australia to carry out “comprehensive and fair investigations” into alleged war …