{"id":17964,"date":"2018-10-11T02:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17964"},"modified":"2018-10-11T02:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:23:28","slug":"china-legalizes-xinjiang-re-education-camps-after-denying-they-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17964","title":{"rendered":"China legalizes Xinjiang &#8216;re-education camps&#8217; after denying they exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Authorities in China&#8217;s far-western Xinjiang region appear to have officially legalized so-called re-education camps for people accused of religious extremism, a little more than a month after denying such centers exist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Xinjiang government on Tuesday revised a local law to encourage &#8220;vocational skill education training centers&#8221; to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjpcsc.gov.cn\/1009\/t4028e49c665347630166588b8cf40001001.html\" target=\"_blank\">carry out anti-extremist ideological education.<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Human rights organizations have long alleged the Chinese government has been detaining hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs &#8212; a Turkic-speaking, largely Muslim minority native to Xinjiang &#8212; in such centers as part of an effort to enforce patriotism and loyalty to Beijing in the region.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Authorities in China&#8217;s far-western Xinjiang region appear to have officially legalized so-called re-education camps for people accused of religious extremism, a little more than a month after denying such centers exist.The Xinjiang government on Tuesday revised a local law to encourage &#8220;vocational skill education training centers&#8221; to &#8220;carry out anti-extremist ideological education.&#8221;Human rights organizations have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964","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=17964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}