Lawmakers and the White House condemned atrocities committed against ethnic and religious minorities in China’s Xinjiang following the release of a U.N. report on human rights in the region.
The report (pdf), published on Aug. 31 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, detailed abuses committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which it said were tantamount to crimes against humanity.
Leadership from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China released a joint statement on Sept. 1, in which they called the report a “damning assessment of Chinese authorities’ brutal treatment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the region.”…