{"id":1549,"date":"2015-01-04T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2015\/01\/04\/bbc-visits-chinas-xinjiang-province-home-uighurs\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T15:09:08","slug":"bbc-visits-chinas-xinjiang-province-home-uighurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/bbc-visits-chinas-xinjiang-province-home-uighurs\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC visits China’s Xinjiang province – home of the Uighurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

China says it is facing a growing threat from militant Islam and it is in the midst of a year-long crackdown on what it describes as terrorism driven by religious extremism.<\/p>\n

2 January 2015 Last updated at 13:36 GMT<\/p>\n

China says it is facing a growing threat from militant Islam and it is in the midst of a year-long crackdown on what it describes as terrorism driven by religious extremism.<\/p>\n

The campaign is focused on the western province of Xinjiang, home to China's Uighur ethnic minority who are predominantly Muslim.<\/p>\n

Despite doubling the policing budget in the province and jailing hundreds of Uighurs, violent attacks have continued.<\/p>\n

Critics say China is exacerbating its problems by religious repression.<\/p>\n

Widespread intimidation makes reporting from the region extremely difficult as the BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie reports.<\/p>\n

China says it is facing a growing threat from militant Islam and it is in the midst of a year-long crackdown on what it describes as terrorism driven by religious extremism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}