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HARDtalk: Nury Turkel - Uyghur Human Rights Project, Washington

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Nury Turkel - Uyghur Human Rights Project, Washington

17/09/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Nury Turkel - Uyghur Human Rights Project, Washington

Has the Chinese province of Xinjiang become a massive prison?

Shaun Ley speaks to Nury Turkel, chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project in Washington, about his belief that Chinese province Xinjiang has become a massive prison.

'Sense the party's thought, obey the party's words, follow the party's lead' are the words printed in red on a building at an internment camp in Xinjiang, China. It is one of the country's wealthiest provinces, and also one of its most restive. It has one and a half per cent of China's population, yet over 20 per cent of its arrests. Meanwhile, there are reports of over a million people currently in detention. The Government says the camps are needed to "re-educate" the people. Nury Turkel, chairman of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, disagrees. Uyghurs, an ethnic group who practice Islam, say Xinjiang has become a giant prison. Yet armed groups have killed hundreds in recent years, and the US and UK among others have placed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, based in the region, among those they call terrorists. Is he being duped, or is China duping the rest of the world?

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