Blinken criticizes China's 'genocide and repression' of Uyghurs

Record ID: 1675299

  • Title: Blinken criticizes China's 'genocide and repression' of Uyghurs
  • Date: 2nd June 2022
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (JUNE 2, 2022) (STATE TV) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN APPROACHING LECTERN (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, ANTONY BLINKEN, SAYING: “China continues its genocide and repression of predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other religious minority groups. Since April 2017 more than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and others have been detained in internment camps in Xinjiang. The PRC continues to arrest adherents to other religions that it deems out of line with Chinese Communist Party doctrine, including, by destroying Buddhist, Christian, Islamic and Taoist houses of worship and by erecting barriers to employment and housing for Christians, Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists and following on practitioners.” BLINKEN LEAVING ROOM
  • Embargoed: 16th June 2022 16:58
  • Keywords: Blinken religion
  • Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • City: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Fundamental Rights/Civil Liberties,Government/Politics,United States
  • Reuters ID: LVA001236402062022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized China's "genocide and repression" of Uyghurs on Thursday (June 2).
    Blinkens remarks came at the launch of the 2021 Report on International Religious Freedom by the Department of State on Thursday (June 2).
    “China continues its genocide and repression of predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other religious minority groups. Since April 2017 more than one million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and others have been detained in internment camps in Xinjiang," said Blinken.
    China initially denied the existence of any detention camps in Xinjiang but in 2018 said it had set up "vocational training centers" necessary to curb what it said was terrorism, separatism and religious radicalism in the region.
    (Production: Bernat Parera)
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