China: violation of human rights on an alarming scale

The publication of the "China Cables", a confidential document of the Chinese Communist Party, has now proven for the first time what has been suspected for a long time: In the province of Xinjiang, there has been massive repression against the ethnic group of the Uyghurs for years. Several hundred thousand Uyghurs, but also members of other Muslim ethnic groups, are said to have been imprisoned in internment camps by the Chinese authorities within the last few years. They are being held there against their will and are to be "re-educated" in line with party ideology. The appeal of Human Rights Watch, at the presentation of the World Report 2020, gives the topic special attention once again