Michelle Bachelet presses for an independent assessment of the situation in Muslim Uighur homeland as her visit to China is delayed.

Activists and UN experts have said that at least one million Muslim Uighurs are detained in camps in the western region of Xinjiang [File: How Hwee Young/EPA]

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has decried the reported arbitrary detentions and ill-treatment of Muslim Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang, as she also drew attention to the restrictions of basic civil and political freedoms in the country including Hong Kong.

Bachelet said that given reports about the use of arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, sexual violence and forced labour against Muslim Uighur minorities, there was a need for a thorough and independent assessment of the

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