Pakistani consulate in China tweets on Uyghurs, Islamabad says account hacked

Hours after tweeting that Islamabad and Beijing will “work closely on matters of mutual interests including Rights & Freedom of Uyghurs community”, Pakistan backtracked saying that their Twitter deal with of Pakistan Consulate General Chengdu had been hacked.

The tweet referred to Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs being grateful to China for help to flood victims after which talked about issues relating to the Uyghur group.

“MoFA Pakistan is thankful for Chinese aid and support for flood reconstruction. We will work closely on matters of mutual interest including the Rights and Freedom of the Uyghurs community,” learn the tweet from the official deal with of Pakistan Consulate General Chengdu on Friday.

The tweet was seen as the primary occasion of Pakistan popping out in help of Uyghur group, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic group primarily in China’s northwestern area of Xinjiang which has confronted “serious human rights violations” from Beijing.

UN human rights report had mentioned final 12 months that China is answerable for “serious human rights violations” in Xinjiang province.

In a strongly-worded evaluation, OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) had mentioned that the extent of arbitrary detentions in opposition to Uyghur and others, within the context of “restrictions and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights, enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”

However, hours after the tweet, Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson mentioned that the Twitter account of the Pakistan Consulate General Chengdu, China “has been hacked”.

“As of today, any tweet or message issued from this account is not made by the Pakistan Consulate General Chengdu nor does it reflect the position of the Government of Pakistan,” the spokesperson mentioned in a tweet.

Beijing has been accused for years of detaining a couple of million Uyghurs and different Muslims in Xinjiang area. China has vehemently rejected these fees, insisting it’s working vocational centres designed to curb extremism.

The UN launched a report in September final 12 months on alleged violations of the human rights of ethnic Uyghurs and different Muslim minorities in China.

The report discovered that mass detentions in China’s Xinjiang area from 2017 to 2019 have been marked by credible documentation of “torture, sexual violence, and forced labour, as well as forced abortions and sterilization”.

The UN report additional acknowledged that the allegations of sexual and gender-based violence, together with rape, “appear credible and would in themselves amount to acts of torture or other forms of ill-treatment.”

UN human rights specialists have raised critical issues concerning the alleged detention and compelled labour of Muslim Uyghurs in China, calling for unhindered entry to the nation to conduct fact-finding missions and urging world and home corporations to carefully scrutinize their provide chains.