China allows U.N. rights chief to visit Xinjiang

China will allow U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to visit the far western region of Xinjiang, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.Bachelet received Beijing's approval to visit the region with the understanding that it would be a "friendly" trip rather than an investigation into alleged human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims, according to The South China Morning Post.Sources told the Hong Kong newspaper that China has also asked the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights to postpone publishing a report about Xinjiang until after the Beijing Winter Olympics.A spokesp…READ FULL ARTICLE