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David Aaronovitch presents in-depth explainers on big issues in the news.

David Aaronovitch and a panel of experts and insiders present in-depth explainers on big issues in the news.

David Aaronovitch and a panel of experts and insiders present in-depth explainers on big issues in the news

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The Briefing Room: What is happening to the Uighurs in China?

What is happening to the Uighurs in China?

BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room, What is happening to the Uighurs in China?

China's treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang, and how the world is responding.

China is accused of grossly violating the human rights of Muslims in Xinjiang, from mass-detention to forced labour. David Aaronovitch examines what's happening to the Uighurs.

The Chinese Communist Party is accused of locking up hundreds of thousands of Uighurs in internment camps. In the Uighurs' homeland in Xinjiang, the state operates a system of mass-surveillance and is accused of human rights abuses against the mainly Muslim minority including forced labour and compulsory birth control. 

China says the camps are not prisons but schools for ‘thought transformation’ and it continues to deny the abuse of human rights.

David Aaronovitch asks leading experts what’s going on in Xinjiang and how is the rest of the world responding:

Rian Thum, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham
Dr Jo Smith Finley, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Newcastle University 
Josh Chin deputy China Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal
Charles Parton Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI

Producers: Kirtseen Knight, Beth Sagar Fenton, Joe Kent
Studio manger: James Beard
Editor: Jasper Corbett.

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