Xinjiang official hails regional human rights progress at UN
(WorldNews China)

China`s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has made remarkable achievements in protecting human rights and providing vocational training to `educate and save` people influenced by religious extremism, a senior Xinjiang official told a United Nations session in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 25. Arken Tuniyaz, an ethnic Uygur and vice-chairman of the region, spoke to some 500 representatives at the ongoing 41st...