![]() ![]() There has also been a marked rise of Islamophobia across China.Īt least 120,000 members of Kashgar’s Muslim Uyghur minority have been detained in Xinjiang’s re-education camps which aim to change the political thinking of detainees, their identities, and their religious beliefs. This has allowed Beijing to justify its transformation of Xinjiang into a surveillance state. After the recent Xinjiang conflict, Beijing has recast the Uyghur ethnic group as a terrorist collective. But similarly to Tibet, Xinjiang is a tightly controlled region of China. The region’s name suggests the Uyghurs have autonomy and self-governance. The Uyghurs are not ethnically Chinese but live in China’s so-called autonomous Xinjiang region. 2018 estimates place the number of detainees in the hundreds of thousands. Since 2017, numerous reports have emerged of the Uyghur people being detained in extrajudicial “re-education camps”, subjected to political indoctrination, and sometimes even torture. Human rights in China is always a hotly contested topic. ![]()
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