Daily Archives: July 3, 2018

The Chinese government is rounding up Muslims and throwing them in camps

Things are going from bad to potentially far worse in China’s western region of Xinjiang. BEIJING HAS BEGUN SETTING UP CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR OVER A MILLION MEMBERS OF ITS MINORITY UYGHUR POPULATION. CREDIT: GETTY / EMMANUEL DUNAND   In China’s remote western province of Xinjiang, the Chinese government has begun constructing a series of internment…

‘It is about Xi as the leader of the world’: Former detainees recount abuse in Chinese re-education centres

Many of those detained are Muslim Uyghurs and Kazakhs accused of ‘incorrect thinking’ in the midst of a campaign that has treated what authorities consider ‘radical tendencies’ as a public-health crisis that must be expunged Authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang province have made loyalty to President Xi Jinping a central part of an extensive political…