The announcement in Beijing was impossible to verify in tightly controlled Xinjiang, and runs counter to accounts of detentions compiled by U.S. officials and activists.
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China’s Retort Over Its Mass Detentions: Praise From Russia and Saudi Arabia
After 22 countries deplored China’s treatment of Muslims in the Xinjiang region, 37 nations praised China’s “contribution to the international human rights cause.”
China Rebuked by 22 Nations Over Xinjiang Repression
In an embarrassment for China, 22 countries rejected its version of events in the Xinjiang region, where a million or more people are in detention centers.
A Muslim Family Sought Help at the Belgian Embassy in Beijing. The Police Dragged Them Out.
The Belgian Embassy is facing criticism after the forcible removal of the family, members of the Uighur minority group that China treats as a security threat.
Your Thursday Briefing
India’s decision and China’s virtual cage.
How China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue Minorities
China has turned the Xinjiang region in its far west into an incubator for automated authoritarianism that could spread across the country and beyond.
In Australia, Muslims Call for Pressure on China Over Missing Relatives
Members of the Uighur ethnic group want their adopted homeland to take action over China’s internment camps, into which many of their loved ones seem to have disappeared.
With Pressure and Persuasion, China Deflects Criticism of Its Camps for Muslims
In the Muslim world, and in Washington and Europe, Beijing uses its economic clout and fears of Islamic radicalism to make its arguments.
Critic Who Exposed China’s Muslim Camps is Detained, Even Across the Border
Serikzhan Bilash, who was instrumental in documenting China’s vast detentions of Muslim minorities, now faces charges in Kazakhstan
U.S. Steps Up Criticism of China for Detentions in Xinjiang
Western governments, academic experts and human rights supporters challenged Beijing over its mass detention of Muslims in China’s western region.