Germany demanded a transparent inquiry into “shocking” claims of human rights crimes against the Uyghur minority in China’s Xinjiang region on Tuesday, after a media consortium released hacked papers alleging the atrocities.

In a phone call with her Chinese colleague Wang Yi, according to a Germany foreign ministry statement, Baerbock mentioned “the shocking reports and new evidence of very serious human rights violations in Xinjiang”.

According to the statement, Baerbock “asked for a transparent inquiry” into the charges.

Earlier Tuesday, many media sources released the Xinjiang Police Files, which seem to depict thousands of images from within Xinjiang’s vast incarceration system, including numerous incarcerated Uyghurs.

According to sources, the youngest was just 15 at the time of her arrest.

The charges emerged as UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet embarked on a trip to the western area to learn more about the condition of the Uyghurs.

Campaigners accuse China’s governing Communist Party of holding nearly a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far western area as part of a years-long campaign that the US and other Western politicians have labelled “genocide.”

China has categorically denied the charges, describing them as “the lie of the century.”

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