U.N. says it has credible reports that PRC holds i K k Uighurs inwards cloak-and-dagger camps
GENEVA (Reuters) - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 UN human rights panel said on Fri that it had received many credible reports that 1 i K k ethnic Uighurs inwards PRC are held inwards what resembles a “massive internment campsite that is shrouded inwards secrecy.” Gay McDougall, a fellow member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, cited estimates that 2 i K k Uighurs as well as Muslim minorities were forced into “political camps for indoctrination” inwards the western Xinjiang autonomous region. “We are deeply concerned at the many numerous as well as credible reports that nosotros bring received that inwards the squall of combating religious extremism as well as maintaining social stability (China) has changed the Uighur autonomous portion into something that resembles a massive internship campsite that is shrouded inwards secrecy, a form of ‘no rights zone’,” she told the initiatory of all of a two-day regular review of China’s record, including Hong Kong as well as Macao.
China has said that Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants as well as separatists who plot attacks as well as stir upwardly tensions betwixt the by as well as large Muslim Uighur minority who telephone band the portion abode as well as the ethnic Han Chinese majority.
A Chinese delegation of or as well as then l officials made no comment on her remarks at the Geneva session that is scheduled to proceed on Monday.
The U.S.A. of America mission to the UN said on Twitter that it was “deeply troubled past times reports of an ongoing crackdown on Uighurs as well as other Muslims inwards China.”
“We telephone band on PRC to halt their counterproductive policies as well as complimentary all of those who bring been arbitrarily detained,” the U.S.A. of America mission said.
The allegations came from multiple sources, including activist grouping Chinese Human Rights Defenders, which said inwards a study terminal calendar month that 21 percentage of all arrests recorded inwards PRC inwards 2017 were inwards Xinjiang.
Earlier, Yu Jianhua, China’s ambassador to the UN inwards Geneva, said it was working toward equality as well as solidarity amid all ethnic groups.
But McDougall said that members of the Uighur community as well as other Muslims were beingness treated equally “enemies of the state” entirely on the solid soil of their ethno-religious identity.
More than 100 Uighur students who returned to PRC from countries including Arab Republic of Egypt as well as Turkey had been detained, alongside or as well as then dying inwards custody, she said.
Fatima-Binta Dah, a panel member, referred to “arbitrary as well as bulk detention of around 1 i K k Uighurs” as well as asked the Chinese delegation, “What is the rank of religious liberty available directly to Uighurs inwards China, what legal protection exists for them to utilization their religion?”
Panelists equally good raised reports of mistreatment of Tibetans inwards the autonomous region, including inadequate role of the Tibetan linguistic communication inwards the classroom as well as at courtroom proceedings.
“The U.N. torso maintained its integrity, the regime got a really clear message,” Golok Jigme, a Tibetan monk as well as old prisoner living inwards exile, told Reuters at the meeting.
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