At least one in every 10 Uighur Muslims living in Xinjiang “disappearing into internment camps”. The figure is even more staggering for those who have family or friends locked away for no other crime but practising a faith – Islam – in a region where this religion is categorically associated with subversion, separatism and terrorism.
While Xinjiang has rapidly devolved into an open-air prison for Uighur Muslims in recent years, the open observance of Islam would lead one directly to the vilest type of Chinese prison: an internment camp designed to “cure” one from Islam and crush the Uighur people.
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