What is happening to the Uighurs in China?
China's treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang, and how the world is responding.
The Briefing Room · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
The Chinese Communist Party is accused of locking up hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in internment camps. In the Uighurs' homeland in Xinjiang, the state operates a system of mass-surveillance and is accused of human rights abuses against the mainly Muslim minority including forced labour and compulsory birth control.
China says the camps are not prisons but schools for ‘thought transformation’ and it continues to deny the abuse of human rights.
David Aaronovitch asks leading experts what’s going on in Xinjiang and how is the rest of the world responding:
Rian Thum, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham Dr Jo Smith Finley, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Newcastle University Josh Chin deputy China Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal Charles Parton Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI
Producers: Kirtseen Knight, Beth Sagar Fenton, Joe Kent Studio manger: James Beard Editor: Jasper Corbett.