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China steps up repression in Xinjiang and Tibet, rights group says China in 2021 increased its repression of ethnic minorities in Tibet and the northwestern region of Xinjiang, severely restricting freedom of religion and pursuing coercive assimilationist policies aimed at creating a single national identity, a rights group said Thursday. State measures taken in Xinjiang especially constituted “crimes against humanity,” with abuses including mass detention and enforced disappearances, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in its World Report for 2022. Chinese officials also committed torture, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution, forced labor and the separation of families, the rights...
