OHCHR found allegations of torture and ill-treatment credible, as were allegations of individual incidents of sexual and gender-based violence, likely constituting crimes against humanity.

Evidence

China responsible for ‘serious human rights violations’ in Xinjiang province: UN human rights report (UN News)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Human Rights Watch documented murder, rape, and torture in Chinese camps — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 162; The report concludes evidence likely meets the requirements for crimes against humanity including persecution, imprisonment, torture, and may substantiate murder, rape, and other inhumane acts. — Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang; There are reasonable grounds to believe RSF and allied militias committed numerous crimes against humanity, including murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, persecution and forcible displacement. — Sudan: UN Fact-Finding Mission outlines extensive human rights violations, international crimes (+1 more)

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