Reuters (June 25) reported that activists and Western diplomats are asking Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, to document her own findings on the plight of Uyghurs in Xinjiang even without China’s blessing for a visit. On June 21, Michelle Bachelet had said that she hoped to agree on terms for a long-sought visit to China this year to look into allegations of mass detention, torture and forced labour.

(Comment: Beijing denies all allegations of abuse of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, describing camps in its far west as vocational training facilities to combat religious extremism.)