Since 2017 China has locked up more than a million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in “re-education” camps
China’s attempts to silence the Uyghurs coincide with a diplomatic push in Europe, where it is hoping officials will forget about its grave human-rights abuses in Xinjiang. . Rights groups have documented campaigns of forced sterilisation, cultural assimilation and the destruction of mosques . Lately, though, the appearance of state oppression has changed. China is trying to convince the world that Xinjiang is just like any other region in the country.
Uyghurs inside China still risk being locked up, just not in the re-education camps. In recent years the government has closed many of them and loosened some security measures in Xinjiang’s big cities. But the number of inmates in the formal prison system has grown. Between 2017 and 2021 more than 500,000 people were prosecuted in the region . That was a huge increase over the previous five years. Many of them received punishments without being tried, says Human Rights Watch, a global monitor.
European leaders are more difficult to impress. In 2021 the European Union imposed sanctions on several Chinese officials over the persecution of Uyghurs. China struck back, placing sanctions on a range of European politicians, diplomats and scholars. The European Parliament then refused to ratify an agreement on bilateral investment that had been reached between China and the, wants to “let bygones be bygones”.
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