GENEVA –
China on Thursday rejected Western recommendations for human rights reforms, including calls for greater freedoms in Hong Kong and for Uighurs in Xinjiang. But it accepted other recommendations from allies in a bid to defend its record at a UN meeting.
The UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva is the culmination of a review process in which Beijing has sought to deflect criticism after a 2022 UN report said the detention of Uighurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region could amount to crimes against humanity. China denies any wrongdoing.
Council President Omar Zniber said China had accepted nearly 70 percent of the more than 400 reform recommendations it received as part of the UN review.
