China: New Zealand’s Ardern Should Spotlight Xinjiang

Expand New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during a celebration of the Chinese Lunar Near Year on February 2, 2019, in Auckland, New Zealand. © 2019 Getty Images (New York) – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern should publicly express concern about mass abuses of Turkic Muslims in meetings with Chinese leaders, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the prime minister. Ardern will visit China, where credible estimates suggest authorities are arbitrarily detaining one million Turkic Muslims, on April 1, 2019. “Following the horrific attacks on mosques in Christchurch, Prime…

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