Policemen remove Tibetan activists from the Students for a Free Tibet association, as they perform a sit-in at the entrance of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters ahead of the February’s Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, yesterday in Lausanne, Switzerland. The United Nations’ human rights office is finalising its assessment of the situation in China’s Xinjiang region, where Uyghurs are alleged to have been unlawfully detained, mistreated and forced to work, a spokesperson said on Friday.

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