Xinjiang

The British House of Commons has approved a parliamentary motion declaring that crimes against humanity and genocide are being committed against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s northwest Xinjiang Province.

OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China

For a number of these documents, OHCHR was able to take steps to verify their authenticity, resulting in assessment that they are highly likely to be authentic and therefore could be credibly relied upon in support of other information. For others, such verification was not possible

In its August 2019 White Paper on “Vocational Education and Training in Xinjiang”, the Government explained that its system sought to balance harsh punishment for serious acts, with compassion, leniency, education and rehabilitation for minor cases.

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang

The manual was approved by Zhu Hailun , then deputy secretary of Xinjiang’s Communist Party and the region’s top security official.

called the Chinese-language documents “very authentic,” adding that they “adhere 100% to all of the classified document templates that I’ve ever seen.”

persistent allegations of forced labour affecting Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz minority groups as well as Tibetans within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and across other parts of China

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