China's repression of Uighurs: UN urges Beijing to comply with human rights standards
Meanwhile in Japan, the co-founder of the Japanese Red Army, an anti-imperialist militant group, has been released after two decades behind bars. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Fusako Shigenobu said she was deeply sorry for the harm her group had caused to innocent victims. The once-feared Marxist-Leninist organisation, which supported the Palestinian cause, carried out several attacks in the 1970s and 1980s.


