{"id":21431,"date":"2018-11-07T03:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T03:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21431"},"modified":"2018-11-07T03:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T03:24:40","slug":"is-china-persecuting-its-uighur-muslim-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21431","title":{"rendered":"Is China persecuting its Uighur Muslim minority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"83.8752362949\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/un.html\">United Nations<\/a> says it resembles &#8220;a massive internment camp, shrouded in secrecy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But China says the facility is a &#8220;vocational education and employment training centre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than a million Uighur Muslims are believed to be held in the Western region of Xinjiang &#8211; a mainly Uighur populated area.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing denies accusations of the mass detentions, saying Uighurs who have been involved in crime are being given a second chance through vocational work.<\/p>\n<p>But the centres where they are thought to be held have come under increasing scrutiny by many rights groups.<\/p>\n<p>During questioning at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, which is reviewing China&#8217;s human rights record this week, Beijing said it protects the freedoms of its ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>But will the growing international pressure make any difference?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Max Oidtmann &#8211; assistant professor of history at Georgetown University<\/p>\n<p>Einar Tangen &#8211; political and economic analyst<\/p>\n<p>Sophie Richardson &#8211; China director at Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations says it resembles &#8220;a massive internment camp, shrouded in secrecy.&#8221; But China says the facility is a &#8220;vocational education and employment training centre.&#8221; More than a million Uighur Muslims are believed to be held in the Western region of Xinjiang &#8211; a mainly Uighur populated area. Beijing denies accusations of the mass&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21431","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\/21431","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=21431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}