{"id":4227,"date":"2018-10-21T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/10\/21\/china-breaks-silence-muslim-detention-camps-calling-them-humane\/"},"modified":"2018-10-21T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T16:11:33","slug":"china-breaks-silence-muslim-detention-camps-calling-them-humane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/china-breaks-silence-muslim-detention-camps-calling-them-humane\/","title":{"rendered":"China Breaks Silence on Muslim Detention Camps, Calling Them \u2018Humane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-p1yi70\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: auto; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; display: flex; height: 648px; width: 1200px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\" style=\"margin-left: calc((100% - 630px) \/ 2); text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">BEIJING \u2014 Under mounting international criticism, China has given its most extensive defense yet of its&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/08\/world\/asia\/china-uighur-muslim-detention-camp.html?module=inline\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" title=\"\">sweeping campaign to detain and indoctrinate Muslims<\/a>, with a senior official on Tuesday describing its network of camps in the far west as humane job-training centers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Rights groups, American lawmakers and a United Nations panel have assailed the \u201ctransformation through education\u201d camps holding Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in China\u2019s far northwestern Xinjiang region. Hundreds of thousands have been held in the camps \u2014 one&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/10\/world\/asia\/china-xinjiang-un-uighurs.html?module=inline\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" title=\"\">estimate says a million<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 and former inmates who have fled abroad have described them as virtual prisons that engage in harsh brainwashing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">But the chairman of Xinjiang\u2019s government, Shohrat Zakir, himself an ethnic Uighur, called the camps a \u201chumane\u201d and lawful shield against terrorism in an interview&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2018-10\/16\/c_137535720.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">published by China\u2019s official Xinhua news agency<\/a>. He said the facilities gave Uighurs and other Muslims courses in the Chinese language and taught them to be law-abiding citizens. They also receive training in job skills such as making clothes, e-commerce, hairdressing <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">and<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> cosmetology, Mr. Zakir said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Mr. Zakir said that \u201cstudents\u201d in the facilities were provided with free meals, air-conditioned dormitories, movie screenings and access to computer rooms.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-13jtjmc\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; width: 210px; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;\">&nbsp;<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-p1yi70\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: auto; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; display: flex; height: 454px; width: 1200px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\" style=\"margin-left: calc((100% - 630px) \/ 2); text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cXinjiang has launched a vocational education and training program according to the law,\u201d Mr. Zakir said. \u201cIts purpose is to get rid of the environment and soil that breeds terrorism and religious extremism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Mr. Zakir did not say how many Muslims had been sent to the camps, but he appeared to acknowledge for the first time that people were being held against their will in the facilities for months or years at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-rpp6yo\" data-testid=\"inline-message\" style=\"margin: 25px auto; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; font-family: nyt-franklin; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 630px; text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"css-10klw3m optimizelyOK vi_inline\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; height: 0px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">He said the program dealt with people suspected of wrongdoing that fell short of requiring criminal convictions, and that they received \u201cgraduation certificates\u201d only after signing agreements and meeting certain criteria. 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The \u201cderadicalization\u201d program is showing results, he said, \u201cbut the duration, complexity <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">and<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> intensity remain acute, and we must maintain high vigilance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-13jtjmc\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; width: 210px; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;\">&nbsp;<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ResponsiveAd-storyBodyAd--35v2w\" id=\"story-ad-2-wrapper\" style=\"margin: 43px auto; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 30px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(243, 243, 243); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(243, 243, 243); text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">\n<div class=\"ResponsiveAd-adSlug--3H3QM\" id=\"story-ad-2-slug\" style=\"margin-bottom: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 0.5625rem; line-height: 0.5625rem; font-family: nyt-franklin, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); letter-spacing: 0.05rem;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-p1yi70\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: auto; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; display: flex; height: 648px; width: 1200px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\" style=\"margin-left: calc((100% - 630px) \/ 2); text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Omurbek Eli, a businessman who has described his time&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/kazakh-01302018161655.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">held in a camp in 2017<\/a>, scoffed at Mr. Zakir\u2019s description of the indoctrination centers as \u201ccolorful\u201d places where students play basketball, watch movies and join in singing contests.&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/6e151296fb194f85ba69a8babd972e4b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">His experience<\/a>, he said, was far harsher, involving long days of marching, singing patriotic Chinese songs and memorizing Chinese laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cThey\u2019re full of nonsense,\u201d Mr. Eli, who is originally from Xinjiang and obtained Kazakh citizenship, said by telephone. \u201cThey say that these camps are to eradicate terrorism, but inside I saw lawyers, doctors, intellectuals, even officials who had nothing to do with extremism,\u201d he said. \u201cThey call these vocational training centers, but it was really a prison.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">The publication of the interview with Mr. Zakir confirmed a shift in China\u2019s public relations strategy over the camps, from silence to an unapologetic defense. Mr. Zakir even cited a&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/ga\/search\/view_doc.asp?symbol=A\/RES\/60\/288\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">United Nations resolution<\/a>&nbsp;on fighting terrorism to justify them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">As criticism of the detentions grew throughout this year, the government first stayed silent. Then it gave sparing acknowledgments of the camps\u2019 existence. Appearing before a United Nations panel in Geneva in August, a senior official in the Chinese delegation&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/13\/world\/asia\/china-xinjiang-un.html?module=inline\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" title=\"\">defended the government\u2019s measures<\/a>&nbsp;yet denied that they amounted to mass detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-13jtjmc\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; width: 210px; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;\">\n<div class=\"css-1n4qhbn ejk1mx12\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; width: 210px; max-width: 210px;\">\n<article class=\"css-1vjinfw ejk1mx10\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">&nbsp;<\/article>\n<article class=\"css-1vjinfw ejk1mx10\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: none; border-left: 0px; border-image: initial; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<h3 class=\"css-1owegx5 ejk1mx11\" style=\"margin-top: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: 10px; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-style: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; font-family: nyt-cheltenham-small, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;; width: calc(100% - 75px);\">&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" class=\"css-12t3uda e1a8i6eb0\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/17\/world\/17china-uighurs-2\/merlin_135425076_c0900bfe-f0df-4ee2-9c5d-aac967d5d50b-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" role=\"group\" style=\"margin: 2.6875rem auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; max-width: 720px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">\n<div class=\"css-1xdhyk6 e1vv25i80\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1afaoz0\" style=\"margin: -1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;\">Image<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"css-1m50asq\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/17\/world\/17china-uighurs-2\/merlin_135425076_c0900bfe-f0df-4ee2-9c5d-aac967d5d50b-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" itemprop=\"url\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/17\/world\/17china-uighurs-2\/merlin_135425076_c0900bfe-f0df-4ee2-9c5d-aac967d5d50b-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/17\/world\/17china-uighurs-2\/merlin_135425076_c0900bfe-f0df-4ee2-9c5d-aac967d5d50b-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/17\/world\/17china-uighurs-2\/merlin_135425076_c0900bfe-f0df-4ee2-9c5d-aac967d5d50b-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/10\/17\/world\/17china-uighurs-2\/merlin_135425076_c0900bfe-f0df-4ee2-9c5d-aac967d5d50b-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: top; height: auto; max-width: 100%; width: 720px;\"><\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"css-1wtlzrm e3zkro30\" itemprop=\"caption description\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span class=\"css-1sy2uy3 e1olku6u0\" style=\"margin-right: 7px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.25rem;\">The chairman of Xinjiang\u2019s government, Shohrat Zakir, in Beijing in March. Mr. Zakir called the detainment camps a lawful defense against terrorism.<\/span><span class=\"css-vuqh7u e18m0s9i0\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.125rem; display: inline-block; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); letter-spacing: 0.01em;\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1afaoz0\" style=\"margin: -1px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); overflow: hidden;\">Credit<\/span><span style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;\">Aijaz Rahi\/Associated Press<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-p1yi70\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: auto; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; display: flex; height: 188px; width: 1200px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\" style=\"margin-left: calc((100% - 630px) \/ 2); text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">But Mr. Zakir\u2019s comments marked the first full-throated defense of the indoctrination program, which&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/13\/world\/asia\/china-muslim-detainment-xinjang-camps.html?module=inline\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" title=\"\">grew out of policies launched by Xi Jinping<\/a>, China\u2019s president <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">and<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> Communist Party chief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Last week, the Xinjiang government&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guancha.cn\/politics\/2018_10_10_474949.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">issued amended rules<\/a>&nbsp;for its \u201cderadicalization\u201d program that for the first time gave clear public authorization for the indoctrination camps.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-13jtjmc\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; width: 210px; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;\">&nbsp;<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-p1yi70\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: auto; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; display: flex; height: 988px; width: 1200px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\" style=\"margin-left: calc((100% - 630px) \/ 2); text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">On Tuesday evening, China\u2019s main state television network, CCTV, broadcast a current affairs program in prime time that praised the camps and&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"http:\/\/tv.cctv.com\/2018\/10\/16\/VIDEVvr9aq34SsDMrB6IRGnh181016.shtml\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">depicted them as caring, happy places<\/a>. It showed a class of Uighur students reading out a Chinese lesson titled, \u201cI am a law-abiding citizen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cAfter a year plus of denial, the Communist Party has decided to get out in front of the story, and put forward its own view over the legality and the nature of these detention camps,\u201d&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latrobe.edu.au\/humanities\/about\/staff\/profile?uname=jleibold\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">James Leibold<\/a>, an expert on Xinjiang at La Trobe University in Australia, said by email. \u201cThe party\u2019s central leadership now seems determined to \u2018standardize\u2019 and \u2018legalize\u2019 their approach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Mr. Zakir\u2019s comments appeared to be part of China\u2019s preparations for an international meeting that could put the camps under further scrutiny. At a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/HRBodies\/UPR\/Pages\/CNindex.aspx\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">in early November<\/a>, foreign governments will have a chance to question officials from Beijing about the detention program and other intrusive security measures affecting Muslim minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cThis meeting is a very important occasion to raise the camp issue,\u201d Dolkun Isa, the president of the&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_Uyghur_Congress\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"World Uyghur Congress\">World Uyghur Congress<\/a>, an exile group based in Germany, said by telephone. (Uyghur is an alternative spelling of Uighur.) \u201cChina has denied the camps, but now it\u2019s something that they just cannot hide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Western governments have indicated that Xinjiang will be a priority at the Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cWe are deeply concerned by credible reports pointing to a serious deterioration of the human rights situation\u201d in Xinjiang,&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/commissioners\/2014-2019\/mogherini_en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Federica Mogherini<\/a>, the European Union\u2019s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, told the European Parliament&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/eeas.europa.eu\/headquarters\/headquarters-homepage\/51670\/speech-behalf-high-representativevice-president-federica-mogherini-european-parliament-urgency_en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">earlier this month<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Last week, a bipartisan panel in Washington&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cecc.gov\/publications\/annual-reports\/2018-annual-report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">issued a report<\/a>&nbsp;condemning the indoctrination camps. Lawmakers on the panel, including Senator Marco Rubio, proposed legislation that would&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/10\/world\/asia\/us-china-sanctions-muslim-camps.html?module=inline\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; text-decoration-line: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145);\" title=\"\">punish China<\/a>&nbsp;for the detention program.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-13jtjmc\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; width: 210px; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;\">&nbsp;<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-p1yi70\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-left: auto; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; display: flex; height: 140px; width: 1200px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">\n<div class=\"css-4w7y5l\" style=\"margin-left: calc((100% - 630px) \/ 2); text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; width: 630px; max-width: 630px;\">\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cIn China, the government is engaged in the persecution of religious and ethnic minorities that is straight out of George Orwell,\u201d Nikki Haley, who recently announced that she was stepping down as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, said on Monday,&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nikki-haley-blasts-china-calls-government-straight-out-of-george-orwell\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"text-size-adjust: 100%; 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Up until 2014, China was beset by a string of violent attacks and riots involving discontented Uighurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">\u201cNow Xinjiang is not only beautiful,\u201d Mr. Zakir said, \u201cit\u2019s also very safe and stable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1xl4flh e2kc3sl0\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.1875rem; line-height: 1.75rem; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; width: 630px; max-width: 100%;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Still, Chinese officials have not given foreign diplomats or journalists access to the camps, nor have they said how many people they hold. Hu Xijin, a prominent editor of Global Times, a brashly nationalist Chinese newspaper, said on Monday that he knew the number, and denied it was a million.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-13jtjmc\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; width: 210px; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;\">&nbsp;<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1xzfkia\" style=\"margin: 43px auto; text-size-adjust: 100%; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Times; width: 630px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><twitterwidget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"1051837551063916544\" id=\"twitter-widget-2\" style=\"margin: 10px auto; position: static; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); max-width: 100%; width: 500px; min-width: 220px;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"3\" style=\"direction: ltr; 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overflow: hidden !important; width: 1px !important; height: 1px !important; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px) !important;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p class=\"Tweet-text e-entry-title\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; list-style: none; border-width: initial; border-style: none; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I have learned the number of people who are receiving de-extremism education at vocational training centers in Xinjiang. I am not authorized to disclose this figure. 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