UN panel says 1 million ethnic Uighur Muslims are being held in internment camps in region
Chinese state media have defended the country’s “intense controls” in Xinjiang, a western territory where human rights advocates claim thousands of Muslim minorities are being routinely detained in mass internment camps.
On Friday, a UN human rights panel said it had received credible reports that as many as 1 million ethnic Uighurs were being held in camps, where they can be kept indefinitely, without due process.
Related: ‘We’re a people destroyed’: why Uighur Muslims across China are living in fear
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