Minutes before the end of the mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR), Michelle Bachelet, her office released, on Wednesday 31 August, a long-awaited report on the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang region.
A few days earlier, Michelle Bachelet had said at an event in Geneva that she had been pressured by both sides to publish the document. At the time, she said she wanted to make it public before the end of her mandate.
The 48-page text, based on...