Are negative Xinjiang reports by NGOs and media true?

Meanwhile, some 1,000 Chinese and foreign nongovernmental organizations jointly wrote to Bachelet appealing to the OHCHR to respect the grave concerns of all the Chinese people and the international community and uphold justice and reject to release the report. People from Xinjiang also wrote to Bachelet introducing the true situation of Xinjiang in countering terrorism and maintaining stability.

In June, UK-based NGO Amnesty International released a 160-page report entitled “Like We Were Enemies in a War”: China’s Mass Internment, Torture and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang, documenting the accounts of more than 50 former detainees who experienced torture, violence, and other ...

Current data on precise numbers of detention centers and internment camps in use during the year were unavailable, although the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Xinjiang Data Project satellite analysis indicated that in prior years, the government operated 385 detention centers, and the NGO Xinjiang Victims Database reported that at one time there were between 50 and 100 prison facilities in the region, housing hundreds of thousands of inmates.

Xinjiang. Also in March 2023, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention · rendered its opinion that the deprivation of liberty of Uyghurs Qurban · Mamut, Ekpar Asat, and Gulshan Abbas was arbitrary. There were no statistics available on the number of individuals in the liuzhi · detention system. The NSC-CCDI published partial statistics in relation to its · campaign targeting law enforcement officials, including that CCDI placed

for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act?,’’ Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 21, 2023. 28 For information from the 2022 reporting year on the formal imprisonment of Turkic Mus- lims previously held in mass internment camps, see Congressional-Executive Commission on · China, 2022 Annual Report (Washington: November 2022), 303–304. 29 Human Rights Watch, ‘‘China: Xinjiang Official Figures Reveal Higher Prisoner Count,’’

25 Stephanie Nebehay, ‘‘1.5 Million Muslims Could Be Detained in China’s Xinjiang: Aca- demic,’’ Reuters, March 13, 2019. See also ‘‘One in Six Uyghurs Held in Political ‘Re-Education · Camps’ in Xinjiang’s Onsu County,’’ Radio Free Asia, August 31, 2018.

Many Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim and ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang detained in the government’s mass arbitrary detention campaign remain imprisoned. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other NGOs alleged many of these detentions amounted to enforced disappearance, since families were often not provided information concerning the length or location of the detention.

Third, the false claim of human rights violations in Xinjiang. Some organizations including Human Rights Watch have fabricated reports on Xinjiang, but their sources are just a small group of extremely anti-China overseas Uyghurs.

NGOs at the meeting, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, are always full of prejudice and they are known for spreading lies, Hua said, adding that the World Uygur Congress at the meeting is an outright anti-China separatist organization.