{"id":21323,"date":"2018-11-06T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21323"},"modified":"2018-11-06T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T12:24:23","slug":"chinas-denial-of-mass-internment-camps-undermined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21323","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s denial of mass internment camps undermined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Spending on prisons and security-related construction in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang doubled between 2016 and 2017 new research has revealed, undermining China&#8217;s denial of the existence of mass internment camps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Up to a million ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have reportedly been detained in the past year inside enormous &#8220;re-education camps&#8221; in the tightly-controlled province, where former detainees say they were forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/02\/asia\/china-xinjiang-detention-camps-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">endure intensive &#8220;brainwashing&#8221; sessions.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The claims, which have been made by activists for months, were confirmed as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/31\/uk\/uk-xinjiang-china-uyghurs-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;broadly accurate&#8221; by the UK government<\/a> in October.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Spending on prisons and security-related construction in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang doubled between 2016 and 2017 new research has revealed, undermining China&#8217;s denial of the existence of mass internment camps.Up to a million ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have reportedly been detained in the past year inside enormous &#8220;re-education camps&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21323","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\/21323","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=21323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}