China kept building new Uighur internment camps in Xinjiang after claiming that detainees had ‘graduated,’ report says

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China has continued to build suspected detainment camps for Uighur Muslims after claiming internationally that detainees have “graduated,” according to a new report . Researchers at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) mapped 380 suspected camps that had been built or expanded since 2017. China initially refused to acknowledge the existence of the camps but later said they were for the “re-education” of Uighurs and other ethnic groups. In December 2019, Chinese officials claimed without evidence that all “trainees” had now “graduated” and were living a happy life. But the evidence gathered by ASPI suggests that detainees may be being...