U.S. House passes Uighur crackdown bill

The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill targeting China’s mass crackdown on ethnic Muslim minorities in the far western Xinjiang region of the country


Uighur Human Rights Policy Act
Condemns detention of more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in so-called “re-education” camps

Alleged treatment of detainees
Political indoctrination, torture, beatings, food deprivation, denial of religious and linguistic freedom

Watchtowers near suspected re-education camp on outskirts of Hotan


Xinjiang
Beijing
CHINA


XINJIANG RE-EDUCATION CAMPS

Approximate locations of suspected facilities

Based on research by East Turkistan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) activist group

Kashgar
Hotan
Aksu
XINJIANG
Urumqi
Turpan
300km 185 miles


Xinjiang population (millions)
Total 24 
Uighur 11
Han Chinese 9.5
Others 3.5


Total suspected detention centres, prisons and re-education camps
465


Sources: AFP, AP, Business Insider, ETNAM
Picture: Getty Images
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