China's Uighur camps - BBC News

Now the documents seen by the BBC appeared to provide detailed insight into how China handled hundreds of Muslims detained in a network of internment

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. The information includes personal details of the Weger community who were detained for reasons such as wearing a headscarf or applying for a passport or accidentally visiting foreign Internet sites, critics say the documents are evidence of a campaign by Chinese authorities against the extreme whose home is in the western Shinjang region, but China has always denied any form of religious discrimination, our diplomatic correspondent James Landale has said. the story from two years ago the bbc reported on

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there were about a million little girls and other muslim minorities have been detained without trial

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says health wiggers here learned chinese and communist party doctrine as part of an attempt at extremism and terrorism, but a leaked document seen by the BBC suggests these camps are part of a comprehensive 137-page crackdown on religious practice.

The spreadsheet lays out in great detail why more than 300 Regas from a particular county in Xinjiang province. were considered for detention some were detained because they had applied for a passport had relatives abroad or had accidentally landed on a foreign website while searching the internet others were detained because they used to grow a long beard or used to wear a headscarf because they had a minor religious infection some were guilty of violations of birth control policies or simply being an unreliable person the document was passed through intermediaries to Abdullah Hebb a weaker exile living in Amsterdam who decided to make it public and, Of course, I am worried about the safety of my family and friends, but if everyone keeps silent because they want to protect themselves and their families, we will never prevent these crimes from being committed.

The document includes data collected by Weig's Communist Party officials such as private and religious lives. pray or go to the mosque and details of some 3,000 family friends and neighbors with whom they may be considered guilty by association some of the data the document is difficult to verify 100% but the experts who have examined it told me they believe that the entire internment campaign and the reasoning behind it reveal a highly detailed and itself internally consistent worldview, which we might like from the ideology of a medieval witch-hunt that is very fearful of anything religious. Last year, China invited the chambers to reclaim these fields. they were simply vocational education centers and today the country's Embassy in London insisted that the only people detained were those convicted of illegal or criminal acts related to terrorism and religious extremism and denied targeting any specific religion or ethnic group james landau BBC

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