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One million Muslim Uighurs held in secret China camps: UN panel
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 14, 2018 07:06pm |
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| Author | Al Jazeera |
| News Date | Friday, August 10, 2018 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | More than one million Uighur Muslims are estimated to be in detention in "counter-extremism centres" in China's far west, the vice chairperson of a United Nations anti-discrimination committee has said, citing credible reports.
Gay McDougall made the comments on Friday as the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination started reviewing China's record over recent years in the Swiss city of Geneva.
Members were "deeply concerned" about reported detentions of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, which have "turned the [Xinjiang] Uighur Autonomous Region into something that resembles a massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy - a sort of 'no rights zone'," McDougall said at the start of the two-day hearing.
"Another two million have been forced into so-called re-education camps for political and cultural indoctrination," she added.
A Chinese delegation of some 50 officials made no comment. |
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