Explainer: who are the Uyghurs and why is the Chinese government detaining them?
- Written by: Anna Hayes, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, James Cook University
Many Muslim minorities in China, particularly the Uyghurs, are arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned.from shutterstock.com
The Uyghurs are Turkic-speaking Muslims from the Central Asian region. The largest population live in China’s autonomous Xinjiang region, in the country’s north-west. The Uyghurs are one of a number of persecuted...
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