UN report accuses China of rights abuses

The United Nations condemns China for serious human rights offences in Xinjiang province, including torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment against ethnic Uyghurs


CHINA
    

KAZAKHSTAN
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)

Increasing detainees: Urumqi No. 3 Detention Centre buildings have grown in number
from 40 (in 2018) to 92 (2020)
          
MONGOLIA
CHINA
500km 310 miles

Suspected detention centres
Facilities believed enlarged 2019-20

Women who violate family planning laws face coercive birth-control measures, such as internment and mandatory sterilisation

BIRTHS PER 10,000

Whole of China
XUAR

18%
16
14
12
10
8 
6 
2010	2020


Many religious sites have been destroyed, such as Imam Asim Shrine

Mar 2012: Structure clearly visible
 
Jun 2020: Site obliterated


Sources: Bloomberg, UN, AFP
Pictures: Google Earth Pro
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