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Experts on human rights and on the situation in Northwest China alleged Friday, August 10 that China has detained more than one million ethnic Muslims and put as many as two million into re-education and indoctrination training.This fact check comes amid ongoing developments that a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called "alarming," at the meeting in Geneva. Gay McDougall is quoted by several news agencies as saying Beijing had "turned the Uighur autonomous region into something that resembles a massive internment camp."The news reports said Chinese officials did not respond, though China's ambassador to the UN earlier told the panel his countries policies toward minorities promote unity and harmony.Late Sunday, the Global Times, the Chinese state newspaper, said in an editorial the security situation in Xinjiang had "turned around," following what it said were a series of terrorist attacks in the autonomous region and in China's interior. The tabloid did indicate "police and security posts can be seen everywhere" in the region but did not mention detention facilities, saying that the West is "smearing" the regional government. We chose to fact check the statement in the same newspaper earlier in August, similar in tone to the Sunday editorial -- the August 1 article representing Beijing's response to months of reports from human rights groups and in the media.Since the spring of 2017, human rights watchers have been calling attention to China’s increasingly repressive measures against its Uighur Muslim population in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in the Western part of the country. Witnesses tell of everything from everyday discrimination, such as being barred from renting hotel rooms, to disappearances and re-education centers" that some have likened to concentration camps. In September 2017
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