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Monday, 25 March 2019

Xinjiang crackdown must continue, top China leader says

Treatment of Uighur minority has been heavily criticised in the west but Wang Yang says ‘high pressure’ must be maintained

Xinjiang needs to “perfect” stability maintenance measures and crack down on religious extremism, the ruling Communist party’s fourth-ranked leader has said on a tour of the region where China is running a controversial deradicalisation programme.

Critics say China is operating internment camps for Uighurs and other Muslim peoples who live in Xinjiang, though the government calls them vocational training centres and says it has a genuine need to prevent extremist thinking and violence.

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