According to RFA report, China has kept more than 5 lakh Uyghur in jails or detention centers
Beijing: According to a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA), despite Beijing’s assertions that the northwest region of Xinjiang has returned to normalcy, China has increased its persecution of the Uyghur ethnic group and still imprisons more than half a million of them in prisons or detention facilities.
According to a 30-page paper by the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, an extra 3 million Uyghurs were compelled to work in 2023, RFA said.
Using satellite imagery, survivor testimonies, Chinese government documents, and new scholarly studies, researchers discovered that China continued its main repressive actions from 2022 to 2024, including those that prompted the US to declare the treatment of Uyghurs a genocide, the RFA report said.
“The policy’s institutional methods have changed in some cases, such as mass detentions, while maintaining comparable results, while in other cases, such as forced labor and the transfer of Turkic minority children to Han households in residential schools, the oppressive practices have expanded,” the report stated.
According to the report’s nine main conclusions, there are now more than half a million Turkic minority people detained in jails or extrajudicially interned, while the real number may be greater.
China’s dependence on kanshousuo, a form of detention institution ostensibly meant for temporary pretrial confinement and questioning, grew as it closed its alleged vocational training institutes.
Many people who were formerly held in these camps have been moved into forced labor or the formal jail system, according to the RFA report’s author, Rian Thum.
According to RFA, Uyghur advocacy groups and human rights organizations have denounced China for its attempts to minimize the continuing crimes in Xinjiang by organizing controlled tours for diplomats and other chosen persons, showcasing Uyghurs who seem to enjoy contented lives.
The situation of the Uyghur people in China, who are mostly found in Xinjiang, has drawn a lot of attention from across the world. Numerous human rights abuses, including forced labor, arbitrary detentions in alleged “re-education” camps, and intensive monitoring, are reported.
