Xi Jinping’s continued tenure as leader is a disaster for human rights, Amnesty International says

Ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP), where President Xi Jinping is expected to be confirmed as CCP General Secretary for a third term, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Hana Young said:

“President Xi’s decade in power has been characterized by sweeping arbitrary detentions, a ruthless nationwide crackdown on freedom of expression and association, and crimes against humanity against Muslims in the Xinjiang region.”

In a strongly-worded assessment at the end of the report of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet on the Chinese violations of human rights last August, OHCHR said that the extent of arbitrary detentions against Uyghur and others, in context of “restrictions and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights, enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”