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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