United Nations report on Xinjiang backs fears felt by Australia's Uyghur community

Outgoing United Nations human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet has released a report detailing serious allegations of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China's Xinjiang region.

The report concluded there were "patterns of torture" in what China calls "vocational education and training centres".

Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute, Professor Justine Nolan, told ABC News that the allegations in the report were in the category of the most significant and serious human rights violations.

Read her full comments here.