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- The United Nations has called on China to end the detention of up to one million Uighurs in the far western Xinjiang province.
- The committee also called out China’s practice of racial and ethnic profiling and heavy-handed restrictions that disproportionately target the Uighur community.
- Xinjiang has become one of the most intrusive police states in the world, and government surveillance of the Uighur ethnic minority permeates almost every aspect of their lives.
The United Nations has called on China to end the detention of what it has cited as “tens of thousands to upwards of a million Uighurs” in the far western Xinjiang province.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Thursday urged China to “halt the practice of detaining individuals who have not been lawfully charged, tried, and convicted for a criminal offense in any extra-legal detention center.” See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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