{"id":13355,"date":"2018-08-31T06:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T06:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13355"},"modified":"2018-08-31T06:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T06:23:52","slug":"is-china-holding-uighur-muslims-in-secret-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13355","title":{"rendered":"Is China holding Uighur Muslims in secret camps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"80.6044921875\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/china.html\">China<\/a> has been accused of detaining more than a million Uighur Muslims in what UN human rights experts say resembles &#8220;a massive internment camp, shrouded in secrecy, a sort of no-rights zone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The camps are believed to be in the western region of Xinjiang. China denies such camps exist, but says criminals involved in minor offences are sent to what it calls &#8220;vocational education and employment training centres&#8221; to help with their reintegration into society.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 million Uighur live mostly in Xinjiang. China says its crackdown there is to protect peace and prevent what it calls terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>There have been ethnic riots in recent years and Uighur separatists have been blamed for several attacks, including one in Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hashem Ahelbarra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Leung &#8211; international and independent China Strategist<\/p>\n<p>Andreas Fulda &#8211; lecturer at the school of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Zenz &#8211; expert on China&#8217;s minority policy<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has been accused of detaining more than a million Uighur Muslims in what UN human rights experts say resembles &#8220;a massive internment camp, shrouded in secrecy, a sort of no-rights zone&#8221;. The camps are believed to be in the western region of Xinjiang. China denies such camps exist, but says criminals involved in minor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}