China's government lashed out on Tuesday against Human Rights Watch's call for a United Nations-led investigation into alleged crimes against humanity targeting ethnic Uyghurs in China's remote Xinjiang Province.
Asked about HRW's report a day earlier concluding that China's mass detention of Muslim Uyghurs involves crimes against humanity, China's Foreign Ministry spokeperson Wang Wenbin called the report "pure slander" meant to undercut China's stability and development.