{"id":4322,"date":"2018-10-28T17:28:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/10\/28\/chinas-uighur-camps-swell-beijing-widens-dragnet\/"},"modified":"2018-10-28T17:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T17:28:36","slug":"chinas-uighur-camps-swell-beijing-widens-dragnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/chinas-uighur-camps-swell-beijing-widens-dragnet\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Uighur Camps Swell as Beijing Widens the Dragnet"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has sharply expanded an internment program that initially targeted ethnic Uighur extremists but is now confining vast numbers of the largely Muslim minority group<\/a>, including the secular, old and infirm, in camps across the country\u2019s northwest.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Urumqi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Up to one million people, or about 7% of the Muslim population in China\u2019s Xinjiang region, have now been incarcerated in an expanding network of \u201cpolitical re-education\u201d camps, according to U.S. officials and United Nations experts.<\/span><\/p>\n