German human rights commissioner to visit Tibet

BEIJING (AP) — Germany’s top official for human rights is visiting Tibet for a dialogue with Chinese counterparts after being denied permission to visit the heavily policed northwestern region of Xinjiang.
German Human Rights Commissioner Barbel Kofler said in a statement that she had wanted to travel to Xinjiang, where an estimated 1 million members of the Turkic Muslim Uighur minority have been held in political re-education camps in what China calls a campaign against terrorism an