White House: U.S. calls on China to immediately cease atrocities on Uyghurs and other minorities

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White Home referred to as on China on Thursday to right away stop “atrocities” towards Uyghurs and different ethnic minorities and urged Beijing to permit unfettered entry to Xinjiang.

White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned the USA welcomed a report from the United Nations’ human rights chief on Wednesday that mentioned China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and different Muslims in its Xinjiang area could represent crimes towards humanity.

“We’ll name on China to right away stop committing these atrocities,” she instructed reporters, urging China to permit impartial investigators full and unhindered entry to the area.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland; Modifying by Chizu Nomiyama)