Bachelet presses China for U.N. access to Xinjiang's Uighurs

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 6, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday that she is seeking access to China to verify continuing reports of disappearances and arbitrary detentions, particularly of Muslims in the Xinjiang region.

China has faced growing international opprobrium for what it calls re-education and training centres in the remote western region: Activists say they are mass detention camps holding more than 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims.