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UN to China: Release Uighurs from re-education facilities

By World Tribune on August 31, 2018 China, Exclusives, NE Asia, Rest of The Best, Top Stories, United Nations, World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Aug. 30 called on China to immediately release Muslim Uighurs from alleged re-education camps. The committee cited estimates that up to one million Uighurs are being detained on the “pretext of countering terrorism” in re-education centers in China’s far […]

China denies transforming Xinjiang province into ‘no rights zone’

By World Tribune on August 15, 2018 China, Exclusives, NE Asia, Rest of The Best, Top Stories, Top Story, United Nations, World Links, World Tribune

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2018 Beijing has denied a UN official’s claim that more than 1 million Muslim Uighurs are being held in what is in effect a massive internment camp in communist China. Gay McDougall, a member of of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, said that China’s Xinjiang region […]