The Chinese government has challenged the authenticity of leaked detention center records from the Western region of Xinjiang, in its most comprehensive statement yet on the high-profile release
The leaked document contained a list of 311 Uyghur residents from Karakax county in southwestern Xinjiang, all of whom were shown to have been sent off to re-education sites for a wide range of alleged offenses.Some of these reasons for detention appeared to be simple cultural or religious behaviors, such as getting married in a religious ceremony or wearing a face veil.
Leaked documents reveal China's brutal treatment of Muslims 05:25Threats to the stateXinjiang in China's far west has been for centuries the home to a large population of Muslim-majority ethnic groups, the largest of which is the Uyghur people.Since 2016 there have been reports of Uyghurs and other groups like them being put into mass detention centers by the Chinese government, referred to by Beijing as"vocational education and training centers.
Reporter: Uyghurs say camps meant to eradicate culture 03:30'Wishful conjecture'At the press conference on Saturday, one of the top officials for Karakax county, Mehmutjan Umarjan said that the reporting of the document was"full of subjective assumptions" and"wishful conjecture.""Thus cannot stand scrutiny, as it does not conform with the facts," he said.
— China Daily February 23, 2020 China Daily, a Chinese state owned media outlet, published a video of a male Karakax resident who had studied at a"training center" after being"influenced by religious extremism and committed minor offenses."In the leaked document, the man is recorded as having being put into a detention center in 2017 for having one more child than allowed.
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