{"id":4507,"date":"2018-11-18T20:43:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T20:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/11\/18\/china-admits-locking-uyghurs-defends-xinjiang-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2018-11-18T20:43:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T20:43:19","slug":"china-admits-locking-uyghurs-defends-xinjiang-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/china-admits-locking-uyghurs-defends-xinjiang-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"China admits to locking up Uyghurs, but defends Xinjiang crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>China has fiercely defended an escalating crackdown in the far western province of Xinjiang<\/a> as necessary for security, claiming inmates of “re-education camps” are happier following their imprisonment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

International outrage has been growing over reports the Chinese government has forced as many as one million people<\/a> into “re-education camps,” where former detainees say they were forced to endure intensive “<\/a><\/span>brain washing<\/span><\/a>“<\/a> sessions including close study of Communist Party propaganda.<\/span><\/div>\n
In the most vocal defense yet of the mass internment of the mostly Muslim Uyghur<\/a> minority group, Shohrat Zakir, a high-ranking Xinjiang government official, told state media<\/a> the Chinese government was fighting “terrorism and extremism” in its own way, and in accordance with United Nations resolutions.<\/span><\/div>\n