{"id":3811,"date":"2017-07-06T15:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2017\/07\/06\/egypt-arrests-chinese-uighur-students-apparently-deport-them\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T15:58:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T15:58:53","slug":"egypt-arrests-chinese-uighur-students-apparently-deport-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/egypt-arrests-chinese-uighur-students-apparently-deport-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt arrests Chinese Uighur students \u2018apparently to deport them\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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CAIRO – Egyptian authorities have arrested “dozens” of students from China’s Uighur Muslim ethnic minority “apparently to deport them” following a request from Beijing, Human Rights Watch said.<\/p>\n

“The authorities should disclose their whereabouts, on what grounds they are held, and give them access to lawyers,” Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s Middle East director, said in a statement tweeted on Wednesday by the organisation.<\/p>\n

“Egypt should not deport them back to China, where they face persecution and torture,” said Whitson.<\/p>\n

A traditionally Muslim group, many Uighurs complain of cultural and religious repression and discrimination by China.<\/p>\n

Asked about the report, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that “as far as I know, China’s embassy in Egypt has sent consular officials to conduct consular visits,” without elaborating.<\/p>\n

Uighur students and activists said police had raided two restaurants frequented by them in Cairo on Tuesday and arrested at least 30 people.<\/p>\n

In Cairo, the Egyptian police denied requests for comment.<\/p>\n

China’s vast Xinjiang region, home to many Uighur, has been racked for years by a series of violent attacks which Beijing blames on exiled Uighur separatist groups whom it says are aligned with foreign terrorist networks.<\/p>\n

Rights groups have countered that unrest in the region is largely a response to repressive policies, and that tighter measures are counterproductive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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