The high commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, denied on Wednesday pressure from China not to release a report on that country and assured that it will be published before she leaves office in August, when her term ends.
«There is no letter from the Chinese authorities, the truth is that there is a letter from countries. Just as there are letters from countries that ask me to publish it, there are letters from countries that ask not to publish it. That’s normal,” Bachelet said during a press conference in Lima as part of a working visit to Peru.
The report “will be published before I leave office” in August, he said.
“I can say that we continue to work in the (United Nations human rights) office to update the report to share it with the country in question, as is always done before giving a report so that it can make factual comments if there are any errors, as is done in normal practice, ”said the high commissioner.
during his visit to China in May, Bachelet urged the authorities to avoid arbitrary and indiscriminate measures in Xinjiang. But he pointed out that his visit was not an investigation.
Beijing is accused of holding Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in detention centers in Xinjiang, sterilizing women and forcing these citizens into forced labor.
China denies all the accusations.
For her part, Bachelet announced on June 13 that she did not aspire to a second term in office, very exposed, in order to spend more time with her family and in her country.
The former Chilean president had notified the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, two months earlier, but no information had been leaked.
The official has been harshly criticized in recent months by the United States and important NGOs that reproach her for a lack of firmness in the face of human rights violations in China, and have accused her of acting mainly as a diplomat and not as a defender of human rights. .
