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Xinjiang reeducation camps

A woman's face appears amidst colorful signs protest against China's Uyghar detention centers.

China says Uighur detention centers fight terrorism, rejects UN criticism

November 6, 2018Justice

China rejects the suspected mass detention and heavy surveillance of Uighurs, dismissing the allegations as “seriously far away from facts.”

A Chinese police officer talks to men in a street in the city of Kashgar, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China, on March 24, 2017.

China’s crackdown on Xinjiang’s Uighur Muslims draws international concern

September 10, 2018

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