Experts say UN Xinjiang report serves to slander China

Published: September 05,2022

By Staff Writer 

The dean of the School of Law at HuazhongUniversity of Science and technology in central China Hubei Province Wang Xigen, is among the intellectuals who have criticized the recent UN report that claims human rights abuses were committed in Xinjiang against ethnic monitories. Wang said the report doesn’t hold water from a professional perspective. “The analysis seems professional on the surface,” he said, but there is a “lack of legal logic.”

China rejected the findings of the UN report, saying “the so-called suggestions were pieced together based on disinformation.” The issue of ethnic minority groups in the Xinjiang region has long been debated between the West and China. The law professor said the residents of Xinjiang, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are in the best position to tell the world what the human rights conditions are like there.

“Based on conjecture and hypothesis, the so-called facts are piled up with ambiguous words, such as ‘like’ and ‘maybe’, making the report nothing but full of disinformation,” Wang noted. 

He said we need to pay attention to the report, but there is a big question mark over its legal effect. In his opinion, it’s time to enhance the construction of human rights with Chinese characteristics, rather than feel frustrated by the so-called “assessment.”

“In recent years, Xinjiang has enjoyed sustained economic growth, social harmony and stability, better living standards, cultures thriving like never before, and freedom of religious beliefs and religious harmony,” Wang said.

“Smearing and slandering China is not the true purpose of anti-China forces,” Wang said, adding that they aim to isolate China economically, to hinder the country’s development.