UN human rights chief

Detention of Uyghurs in China: UN report cites possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang

Detention of Uyghurs in China: In the past five years, the Chinese government's mass detention campaign in Xinjiang swept an estimated million Uyghurs and other ethnic groups into a network of prisons and camps, which Beijing called "training centres" but former detainees described as brutal detention centres. 

Sep 01, 2022, 06:41 AM IST

India accuses UN Human Rights chief of silence on Pakistan's state-sponsored terror

India on Thursday accused UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein of being "silent" on Pakistan's state sponsorship of terror - in an unusually strong and open criticism of the official.

Mar 10, 2017, 00:02 AM IST