Joint Letter to the UN Secretary General on Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang

September 16, 2019 António Guterres Secretary-General United Nations New York, NY Re: China’s Human Rights Violations in Xinjiang Dear Secretary-General, We, a coalition of five human rights organizations, write to express our deep concern about the arbitrary detention of an estimated more than a million Turkic Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. We appeal to you to add the weight of your office to the growing number of voices speaking out publicly, including the 25 countries that issued a joint statement on Xinjiang at the United Nations Human Rights Council on July 10. By publicly and unequivocally…

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