China agrees to Xinjiang visit by UN rights chief in early 2022: Media

Workers are seen on a production line at a factory in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on Jan 27, 2020. - Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters): China has agreed to let the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visit Xinjiang in the first half of 2022 after the Beijing Winter Olympics, according to a report in the South China Morning Post which cited unnamed sources.

Rights groups have accused China of perpetrating widescale abuses against Uyghurs and other minority groups in its western region of Xinjiang, including mass detention, torture and forced labour. The United States has accused China of genocide.