A long-awaited United Nations report has concluded that China “may” have committed human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in the country’s Xinjiang region. Despite calls from Beijing to withhold the report over the claim that it’s a politically-motivated Western “farce”, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet released it yesterday – on her last day on the job… Based partly on interviews conducted with former detainees of the detention centres that China claimed were job training facilities, the report backs up what’s already been well and truly documented by rights groups and media outlets. The UN report accuses China of using “discriminatory” birth control policies and arbitrary detention, with investigators uncovering “credible evidence” of torture against the Uyghurs. Human rights advocates are sceptical about the latest report resulting in any change but have called for more scrutiny of the government’s actions in the region. #SquizShortcut