Germany urges UN access to Chinese detention camps

Описание: (25 Nov 2019) Germany demanded Monday that China give UN human rights officials unhindered access to camps in its western region of Xinjiang, after leaked documents indicated they are used to forcibly "re-educate" minorities.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebahr said Germany was "following with great concern" recent news reports about the camps, where about one million people are being held.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Germany joined other countries in calling for UN experts to be allowed to visit the camps and produce an independent assessment of the situation there.
Seibert told reporters in Berlin that "we must now concentrate on verifying these reports."
China's Embassy in the United Kingdom has said the documents were "fake news".
The Chinese government has detained more than a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities for what it calls voluntary job training.
But the leaked documents show that the camps Beijing runs in China's far west are secret centers for forced ideological and behavioral re-education.
The confidential documents, leaked to a consortium of international journalists, lay out the Chinese government's deliberate strategy to lock up minorities, most of whom are Muslims, to rewire their thoughts and even the language they speak.

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