October 17, 2022

China claims ‘victory’ as UN Human Rights Council votes not to discuss allegations of abuses against minority Uighurs. The UN Human Rights Council has voted not to debate the treatment of the Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang even after the UN’s human rights office concluded the scale of …

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Police spokesman Faruk Ahmed says the two Rohingya leaders were killed at Camp 13 in one of the worst attacks in recent months. A mob of a dozen people hacked to death two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh as security worsens in camps housing almost one million refugees. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/16/two-rohingya-camp-leaders-killed-in-bangladesh

Greece and Turkey trade accusations after Greek authorities find the people close to the countries’ border. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says “it is deeply distressed by the shocking reports and images” of 92 people found at the Greek-Turkish land border stripped of their clothes. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/17/un-deeply-distressed-over-stripped-refugees-found-by-greece