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The UN acknowledged Friday that a widely anticipated report on human rights in Xinjiang, where China stands accused of serious abuses against minority Uyghur Muslims, will not be published before the Olympics. Pressure has been mounting on the United Nations Rights Office to publish its report quickly, amid fears that China will use the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, which start next week, to distract from alleged wide-scale rights violations in Xinjiang. Last week, lawmakers in Washington, which accuses China of genocide against Uyghurs in the far western region, called for the urgent release of …