{"id":18022,"date":"2018-10-11T13:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18022"},"modified":"2018-10-11T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:24:01","slug":"xinjiang-oppression-has-a-long-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18022","title":{"rendered":"Xinjiang oppression has a long history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>China finally admitted this week what had been widely reported: that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/10\/asia\/xinjiang-china-reeducation-camps-intl\/index.html\">interning thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people in &#8220;re-education camps&#8221;<\/a> in the far-western region of Xinjiang. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Human rights groups previously estimated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/13\/asia\/china-xinjiang-uyghur-united-nations-intl\/index.html\">as many as one million people have been held in the camps<\/a>, which satellite photos show have sprung up across the region in recent months.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Along with restrictions on halal food, Islamic dress, and general religiosity, the ongoing crackdown has primarily affected the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group who historically were the majority in the region. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)China finally admitted this week what had been widely reported: that it is interning thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people in &#8220;re-education camps&#8221; in the far-western region of Xinjiang. Human rights groups previously estimated that as many as one million people have been held in the camps, which satellite photos show&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18022","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\/18022","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=18022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}