Senator Gardner Urges China to Allow UN to Investigate Persecution of Uyghurs

This photo taken on May 31, 2019 shows a Uighur woman (C) going through an entrance to a bazaar in Hotan, in China's northwest Xinjiang region. - A recurrence of the Urumqi riots which left nearly 200 people dead a decade ago is hard to imagine in today's Xinjiang, a Chinese region whose Uighur minority is straitjacketed by surveillance and mass detentions. A pervasive security apparatus has subdued the ethnic unrest that has long plagued the region. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), is urging to the Ambassador of China to the United States Cui Tiankai, to allow the United Nations to investigate the treatment of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghurs Autonomous Region.

“An investigation with cameras is not only warranted but necessary so that the world can see the truth in Xinjiang," Gardner wrote in a letter Friday. “Therefore, I request that you and your government allow a full UN investigation, including cameras, into the treatment of this vulnerable population.”