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Wednesday, 31 October 2018

UK believes China has interned about 1 million Uighur Muslims

Criticism is mounting over reports of mass camps in the western territory of Xinjiang

British diplomats have visited Xinjiang and confirmed that reports of mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims were “broadly true”, the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has told parliament.

Beijing faces mounting international criticism for its policies in Xinjiang, a far western territory of China where researchers believe an estimated 1 million Muslim minorities have been detained in a network of camps.

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