U.N. rights boss decries violations in China's Xinjiang
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United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Friday that China is restricting basic civil and political freedoms in..
Xinjiang
Autonomous region in People's Republic of China
Xinjiang, officially Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country close to Central Asia. Being the largest province-level division of China and the 8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over 1.6 million km2 and has about 25 million inhabitants.
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