The United Nations (UN) has accused China of "serious human rights violations" in a long-awaited report into allegations of abuse in Xinjiang province, reports BBC.
China had urged the UN not to release the report as they think it’s a “farce” created by western powers.
The report claims the abuse against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities is very much credible, which China turned down.
But investigators said they uncovered "credible evidence" of torture possibly amounting to "crimes against humanity".
They accused China of using vague national security laws to clamp down on the rights of minorities and establishing "systems of arbitrary detention".
The report, which was commissioned by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, said prisoners had been subjected to "patterns of ill-treatment" which included "incidents of sexual and gender-based violence".
Others, they said, faced forced medical treatment and "discriminatory enforcement of family planning and birth control policies".
The UN recommended that China immediately takes steps to release "all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty" and suggested that some of Beijing's actions could amount to the "commission of international crimes, including crimes against humanity".
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