At least 120,000 members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority have been confined to political “re-education camps”.
According to Human Rights Watch’s report, the centres are often housed in converted government buildings such as schools or specially built facilities. Wang said detainees were often held, unlawfully and without charge, as a result of religious “offences” such as excessive praying or non-religious acts such as accessing proscribed websites.
Maya Wang, a Human Rights Watch campaign explained while authorities claimed the centres were about combating terrorism and separatism, they were in fact designed to brainwash and assimilate Uighurs. “At the political education facilities, they sing patriotic songs. They learn about Xi Jinping thought. These are patriotic measures aimed at making Uighurs love the Chinese government,” she said. “It’s extreme repression.
For further information on Uighur separatism
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2014/no-1321-september-2014/material-world-china%E2%80%99s-wild-west
According to Human Rights Watch’s report, the centres are often housed in converted government buildings such as schools or specially built facilities. Wang said detainees were often held, unlawfully and without charge, as a result of religious “offences” such as excessive praying or non-religious acts such as accessing proscribed websites.
Maya Wang, a Human Rights Watch campaign explained while authorities claimed the centres were about combating terrorism and separatism, they were in fact designed to brainwash and assimilate Uighurs. “At the political education facilities, they sing patriotic songs. They learn about Xi Jinping thought. These are patriotic measures aimed at making Uighurs love the Chinese government,” she said. “It’s extreme repression.
For further information on Uighur separatism
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2014/no-1321-september-2014/material-world-china%E2%80%99s-wild-west
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