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China lashes out at Japan’s ‘concern’ over human rights

By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press
Published: February 1, 2022, 8:24am

TOKYO — Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday urged their government to take action against a “serious human rights situation” in China, drawing a quick and angry rebuke from Beijing.

The resolution passed by Japan’s lower house stopped short of naming China, but expressed “concern about serious human rights conditions including the violation of religious freedom and internment in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong” — all of which are ruled by China.

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