China: Uighurs

(asked on 13th September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2018 to Question 165671 on China: Detainees, what recent estimate he has made of the level of internment of members of the Uighur minority in political re-education camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.


Answered by
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Mark Field
This question was answered on 9th October 2018

There are no official figures detailing the number of people detained in the re-education camps in Xinjiang. However, credible reports estimate that at least one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have been held in these camps.

The UK Government has serious concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang and reports of the Chinese Government’s deepening crackdown, including re-education camps, and wide spread surveillance and restrictions targeted at ethnic minorities. I raised our concerns about Xinjiang with Vice Minister Guo Yezhou during my visit to China on 22 July 2018. The Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, also raised our concerns about the region with Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his visit to China in July 2018.

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