28 min

#115 What's happening to the Uyghur in China‪?‬ Asia Rising

    • Politics

In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.

China faces mounting pressure from international human rights groups, governments, and academics to end these practices, but will anything help the Uyghurs?

Guests:
Nury Turkel (Uyghur Human Rights Project)
Associate Professor James Leibold (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)

In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.

China faces mounting pressure from international human rights groups, governments, and academics to end these practices, but will anything help the Uyghurs?

Guests:
Nury Turkel (Uyghur Human Rights Project)
Associate Professor James Leibold (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)

28 min

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