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BISHKEK (TCA) — A group of ethnic Kyrgyz originally from the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang have urged Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov to seek the release of their relatives from "reeducation camps" in China, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan has denied asylum to a Chinese national whose court testimony helped expose so-called "reeducation camps" in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, RFE/RL reported. Continue reading
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (TCA) — Dozens of ethnic Kazakhs originally from China appealed to Germany's chancellor for help in seeking the release of relatives from so-called "reeducation camps" in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Province, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Chinese government is conducting a mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations against Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report released on September 9. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A United Nations human rights panel says that an estimated one million ethnic Uyghurs in China are being held in "counterextremism centers," with millions more forced into reeducation camps, turning China's far-western Xinjiang-Uyghur region into "something that resembles a massive internment camp", RFE/RL reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The largest Islamic training institute in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is training religious staff with the correct political stance and excellent moral traits to uphold social stability and ethnic unity in the region that is home to a large Muslim community, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported with reference to an article published in the Global Times. Continue reading
