{"id":18646,"date":"2018-10-16T07:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T07:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18646"},"modified":"2018-10-16T07:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T07:23:21","slug":"china-admits-to-locking-up-uyghurs-but-defends-xinjiang-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18646","title":{"rendered":"China admits to locking up Uyghurs but defends Xinjiang crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>China has defended an <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/11\/asia\/xinjiang-reeducation-muslim-china-intl\/index.html\">escalating crackdown in the far western province of Xinjiang<\/a> as necessary for security, claiming inmates of &#8220;re-education camps&#8221; are happier following their imprisonment. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In the most vocal defense yet of the mass internment of the mostly Muslim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/13\/asia\/china-xinjiang-uyghur-united-nations-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Uyghur<\/a> minority group, Shohrat Zakir, a high-ranking Xinjiang government official, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2018-10\/16\/c_137535821.htm\" target=\"_blank\">told state media<\/a> the Chinese government was fighting &#8220;terrorism and extremism&#8221; in its own way, and in accordance with United Nations resolutions.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s Xinjiang is not only beautiful but also safe and stable. No matter where they are or at what time of the day, people are no longer afraid of going out, shopping, dining and traveling,&#8221; he told state-run news agency Xinhua, Tuesday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)China has defended an escalating crackdown in the far western province of Xinjiang as necessary for security, claiming inmates of &#8220;re-education camps&#8221; are happier following their imprisonment. In the most vocal defense yet of the mass internment of the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority group, Shohrat Zakir, a high-ranking Xinjiang government official, told state&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18646","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\/18646","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=18646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}