Mr Zakir appeared to refer to a script for much of his 15-minute reply. Region sees fivefold increase in birth control procedure in just two years China has consistently denied that it is locking up Muslims without trial. Firefighters have brought the fire under control but they expected to keep working through the day, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny posing for a selfie with his family at Berlin's Charite hospital. China has long been accused of using hellish torture camps to crush political dissent and persecute Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province. China will celebrate national day marking the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1st, The Glass Mountain Inn burns as the Glass Fire moves through the area in St. Helena, California. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Masks, which were already compulsory on public transport, in enclosed public spaces, and outdoors in Paris in certain high-congestion areas around tourist sites, were made mandatory outdoors citywide on August 28 to fight the rising coronavirus infections, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows to the national flag at the start of a press conference at the prime minister official residence in Tokyo. Dozens of fires are burning out of control throughout Northern California as fire resources are spread thin, Students use their mobile phones as flashlights at an anti-government rally at Mahidol University in Nakhon Pathom. Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters massed close to Thailand's royal palace, in a huge rally calling for PM Prayut Chan-O-Cha to step down and demanding reforms to the monarchy, Supporters of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr maintain social distancing as they attend Friday prayers after the coronavirus disease restrictions were eased, in Kufa mosque, near Najaf, Iraq, A protester climbs on The Triumph of the Republic at 'the Place de la Nation' as thousands of protesters take part in a demonstration during a national day strike called by labor unions asking for better salary and against jobs cut in Paris, France, A fire raging near the Lazzaretto of Ancona in Italy. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute says there are 380 suspected facilities in the Xinjiang region - some 40% more than previous estimates. The United States has considered imposing sanctions on Chinese officials, including Chen Quanguo, a powerful politician who is a member of the politburo - the group of the 25 most senior officials in China. Shohrat Zakir told Sky News: "Some foreign voices talking about Xinjiang, they have said that Xinjiang has 'concentration camps', or 'education camps', and so on. Activists claim more than a million people are being held in mass detention camps in the region as part of a crackdown which Beijing says is needed to stem the threat of Islamist extremism. Mr Zakir refused to give a figure, saying the number of people entering and leaving the centres is constantly changing. Authorities required reporters' questions to be submitted in advance. Officials say allegations about "vocational training centres" are "made up, they are lies and they are very ridiculous". US officials have claimed China has made many aspects of religious practice and culture criminal in Xinjiang, with punishments being handed out for teaching Muslim texts to children and parents banned from giving their children Uighur names. Images from Chinese state TV show life inside the "schools" But a euphemism for the camps has long existed - education. The region has experienced violent protests and clashes with police, as well as terrorist attacks, that have cost hundreds of lives. Sunday shows round-up: Chinese Ambassador denies Xinjiang concentration camps 19 July 2020, 1:13pm Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming, Picture credit: BBC Andrew Marr show Omnion Cultural fights for the independence of Catalonia, The Moria refugee camp, two days after Greece's biggest migrant camp, was destroyed by fire. Shohrat Zakir, chairman of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Support free-thinking journalism and attend Independent events, Saudi crown prince suggests China has 'right' to detain Uighur Muslims, Turkey calls on China to close Muslim 'concentration camps', Europe 'must act over detention of Uighur Muslims in China'. "It's not like some have been saying, that there are several million people in the centres," he said. In February, however, the Turkish foreign ministry described them as concentration camps where detainees face torture. If there was previously any question whether the Chinese Communist Party’s mass detention of Uighur Muslims and other minorities in the Xinjiang region rises to the level of genocide, new reports released early Monday morning leave little room for doubt. The news conference, at the Great Hall of the People next to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, was tightly controlled. Reports of mass re-education camps holding more than a million people are ‘completely fabricated lies’, claims Xinjiang governor, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. For a long time, China denied that the reeducation camps even existed (according to some estimates, they house 1.5 million detainees). China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying has stated that Tursun was taken into custody by police on "suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred and discrimination" for a period lasting 20 days, but denies that Tursun was detained in a re-education camp. 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"Vocational training centres" is China's official label for the detention facilities. It is the largest mass internment of an ethnic-religious minority group since World War II. These kinds of statements are completely fabricated lies, and are extraordinarily absurd.”. Secret government documents have revealed the scale of reeducation forced on Muslim minorities at Chinese prison camps. China has been carrying out a cultural genocide, not about killing the people but rather converting them forward. Mr Quanguo, who attended what was one of the most eagerly anticipated briefings of China’s parliamentary session by foreign media, did not answer questions on the camps. China’s 260 concentration camps are proof of pure evil. 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A collaboration between the Associated Press and Adrian Zenz, one of the world’s top scholars on the Xinjiang concentration camps… "Overall, the number of people in our centres will be fewer and fewer," he said. In an Instagram post he said he could now breathe independently following his suspected poisoning last month, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba and former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida celebrate after Suga was elected as new head of the ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election in Tokyo, A man stands behind a burning barricade during the fifth straight day of protests against police brutality in Bogota, Police officers block and detain protesters during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. During the latest episode of Swedish television STV’s program “30 minutes”, Chinese Ambassador Gui Congyou denies the existence of the so-called concentration camps in Xinjiang.According to a recent article published by Swedish media Expressen, Amnesty Sweden however rejects the ambassador’s statement.. … The United States called conditions the facilities “completely unacceptable”. Mr Zakir said the centres were "the same as boarding schools". This would give the US executive branch power to impose targeted sanctions or visa bans on individuals who have committed human rights violations anywhere in the world. "And one day, when society has no need for them, the centres will disappear. Beijing has been increasingly assertive over the last six months, moving from denying the existence of the centres to defending them vigorously as a model for anti-extremism.

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