{"id":4138,"date":"2018-10-07T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T11:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/10\/07\/chinas-re-education-camps-million-muslims-what-everyone-needs-know\/"},"modified":"2018-10-07T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T11:18:58","slug":"chinas-re-education-camps-million-muslims-what-everyone-needs-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/chinas-re-education-camps-million-muslims-what-everyone-needs-know\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Re-Education Camps For A Million Muslims: What Everyone Needs To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

A human rights atrocity is unfolding in western China, where the \u201centire culture\u201d of Uyghur Muslims is being effectively criminalized, scholars say. Arbitrary detentions in \u201ctransformation through education\u201d camps now reach up to 1 million Muslims in the Xinjiang region.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let us explain.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Overview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Timeline of recent reporting, from October 2017 to present<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Re-education camps: What we know<\/a><\/strong>
\u201cCrimes\u201d and punishment \u2022 Prominent Uyghurs detained \u2022 UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination<\/em><\/p>\n

China\u2019s response<\/a><\/strong>
\u201cThere is no such thing as so-called \u2018re-education camps\u2019 in Xinjiang\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Why now?<\/a><\/strong>
Chen Quanguo \u2022 Belt and Road \u2022 \u201cStability\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The bigger story: Global significance<\/a><\/strong>
Uyghurs abroad \u2022 Experimental surveillance \u2022 International response \u2022 Journalist harassment<\/em><\/p>\n

Top photo: One of the few publicly available images of mass incarcerated ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region of China shows inmates of the \u201cLop County number 4 education and training center\u201d (\u6d1b\u6d66\u53bf\u7b2c\u56db\u6559\u80b2\u57f9\u8bad\u4e2d\u5fc3 lu\u00f2p\u01d4 xi\u00e0n d\u00ec s\u00ec ji\u00e0oy\u00f9 p\u00e9ix\u00f9n zh\u014dngx\u012bn) listening to a \u201cde-extremification\u201d (\u53bb\u6781\u7aef\u5316 q\u00f9 j\u00eddu\u0101n hu\u00e0) speech on April 7, 2018. Photo identified by <\/em>Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang<\/a><\/em>, full-resolution image courtesy of Twitter user <\/em>@AYNUR22630941<\/a><\/em>, original source <\/em>archived here<\/a><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Who are the Uyghurs and what is happening in Xinjiang?<\/b><\/p>\n