Bachelet to visit China in May

The UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet yesterday announced that she will visit China in May, with her team heading soon to Xinjiang, where Beijing stands accused of serious abuses, to prepare. Rights groups say that at least one million mostly Muslim minorities have been incarcerated in "re-education camps" in Xinjiang, a far-western region where China is accused of widespread human rights abuses including forced sterilisations of women and forced labour. Beijing vehemently denies all such charges.