China tells UN Australia’s offshore detention centres violate human rights, don’t have adequate conditions

China says it is “deeply concerned” by the Australian government’s operation of offshore detention centres, and called for the sites to be closed immediately.

Ties between the two countries soured in 2018 when Australia became the first nation to publicly ban China’s Huawei from its 5G network and worsened when Australia last year called for an inquiry into the origins of coronavirus.

In a statement to the UN Human Rights…