China committing ‘gross’ abuses against Uighurs, says UK


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The United Kingdom has condemned China's crackdown on ethnic Uighurs, as rights groups estimate more than a million have been placed in internment camps. Britain on Sunday accused Beijing of "gross, egregious human rights abuses" over its "deeply troubling" treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in China's western Xinjiang region. Rights groups and experts estimate that more than one million ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking minorities have been rounded up into a network of internment camps. British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the reports of forced sterilisations and mass detentions in the predominantly Muslim region required international attention. READ MORE...