According to new accounts obtained by the BBC, “women in China’s ‘re-education’ camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured.”
For years, the Chinese Communist Party’s apparent persecution of Uighurs and other minorities in China’s Xinjiang region has come under scrutiny. The Uighurs are a mostly Muslim Turkic minority group, and it is believed that the Chinese regime has detained around one million people without trial, many of them housed in concentration camps. In addition, human rights groups have accused the Chinese government of stripping away “the religious and other freedoms of the Uighurs, culminating in an oppressive system of mass surveillance, detention, indoctrination, and even forced sterilization.”
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