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Police Chief In China Expresses Concern Over ‘Re-Education’ Camp, Gets Detained

Ashe Schow
Police Chief In China Expresses Concern Over ‘Re-Education’ Camp, Gets Detained
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A police chief in China has been detained after he voiced his concerns about the communist country’s mass incarceration of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region.

Himit Qari, the police chief of Ucha township in Kuchar county, was detained after criticizing the country’s detention of his fellow Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities. Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that Qari made his remarks about 1.5 million minorities held for having “strong religious views” while “attending a gathering at a friend’s home early this year.” Several weeks later, the 45-year-old was “summoned by the Kuchar County Public Security Bureau’s disciplinary office for questioning, taken to a prison amid a further investigation into his case, and accused of ‘revealing state secrets,’” a source told the outlet.

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