Xinjiang: Germany asks China to allow officials after fresh evidence

Amidst surfacing of evidence that proves that Chinese authorities have been inflicting atrocities on mirity Muslims community in region through ir detention camp facilities, Germany on Monday called on China to provide access to UN human rights commissioner and international experts to Xinjiang province.

German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebahr, while speaking at a media briefing, said, "We demand that Chinese side improve human rights situation and provide access reto UN human rights commissioner and international experts."

Leaked documents help bring out new evidence

Abebah's remarks come after International Consortium of Investigative Journalists- a global network of investigative journalists based in Washington- released China Cables, showing how Uighurs Muslims are locked up, indoctrinated and punished inside detention camps. Meanwhile, it also came to light that  Chinese government has consistently claimed that detention centres in Xinjiang offer voluntary education and training. investigation has thus found new evidence which undermines Beijing's claims that detention camps, that have been built across Xinjiang in last three years, provide voluntary re-education purposes to counter extremism to inmates who are detained without trial.

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investigation that opened new doors includes a nine-p memo sent out in 2017 by Zhu Hailun, n deputy-secretary of Xinjiang's Communist Party and region's top security official, to those who run camps. instructions in evidence clearly point to fact that authorities were ordered to run camps as "high-security prisons", with strict discipline, punishments escapes, and make remedial Mandarin studies as a top priority.

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Additionally, it also surfaced that while strictness should be implemented in camps, guards should impose pervasive, round--clock video surveillance to prevent escapes. Furr, inmates were also ordered to be kept isolated from outside world and held to a strict scoring system that could determine when y might be released.

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leaked documents also talk about how facilities were purposely shrouded in secrecy, with even employees banned from bringing in mobile phones. Chinese government has also been proved to be using mass surveillance and a predictive-policing programme that analyses personal data.

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(With ANI inputs)