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Agence France-Presse

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday denounced the “awful abuses” of Muslim Uygurs detained in Chinese reeducation camps.
“Hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of Uygurs are held against their will in so-called re-education camps where they’re forced to endure severe political indoctrination and other awful abuses,” Pompeo said in a speech in Washington on the state of religious freedom around the world.
US lawmakers demand more sanctions on China for Uygur crackdown
Beijing has rejected UN estimates that more than a million members of Muslim minorities are being held in internment camps in China’s western Xinjiang region.
Watch: Why China is keeping a tight grip on Xinjiang


In a letter to Pompeo and US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Republican and Democratic members of the US Congress late last month called for sanctions on Chinese officials implicated in the internment of Uygurs.
Pompeo did not say in the speech whether he would take punitive measures.
Speaking out: Uygurs in US break silence on China’s crackdown
He also expressed concern about the fate of Christians in China, who he said had been targeted in a government crackdown.
The government, he said, has been “closing churches, burning Bibles and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith”.


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Mike Pompeo denounces China’s ‘awful abuses’ of detained Muslim Uygurs

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks on religious freedom on Friday in Washington. Photo: EPA-EFE

Speaking out: Uygurs in the United States break silence on China’s crackdown

Uygurs marching to the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations in New York on March 15, part of demonstrations around the world to protest China’s surveillance and security campaign that has sent thousands into detention and political indoctrination centres in Xinjiang. Photo: AP

Juret Nizameddin at home in Virginia, August 2018. Photo: Handout

Juret Nizameddin with family in Washington, August 2017. Photo: Handout

Hamut with wife in Changji, Xinjiang, January 2016. Photo: Handout

Shohret Hoshur (left) and Omer Kanat (centre) in the same photo at a rally.

US lawmakers demand wider sanctions on China for crackdown on Muslim Uygurs

US Republican Senator Marco Rubio wants to expand the list of Chinese entities barred from purchasing equipment that could be used for surveillance. Photo: AP

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2017 file photo, residents watch a convoy of security personnel in a show of force through central Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. Two U.S. lawmakers are urging the extension of American export restrictions to prevent sales of equipment that could be used in China’s massive security clampdown targeting the Xinjiang region’s native Muslim population. Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Chris Smith said in a letter, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, to the U.S. commerce secretary that they want foreign entities, including businesses, research institutions, government and private organizations, and individuals seen as profiting from the clampdown added to a watch list. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Germany stops deporting Uygurs after asylum seeker is mistakenly sent to China, then vanishes

Germany says it made a mistake in April when Bavaria sent back a Uygur man who has not been heard from since

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2017 file photo, Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. Since 2016, Chinese authorities in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang have carried out a campaign of mass detentions and indoctrination in internment camps with the stated aim of bolstering national security and eliminating Islamic extremism. The program appears to be an attempt to rewire its detainees' political thinking, erase their Islamic beliefs and reshape their very identities. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Muslim men arriving at the Id Kah Mosque for the morning prayer on Eid al-Fitr in the old town of Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in this 2017 file picture. Photo: AFP

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Kashgar, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. A UN human rights panel has estimated 1 million ethnic Uygurs are being held in political camps for indoctrination in the region. Photo: Xinhua

UN’s claim China holds 1 million Uygurs in Xinjiang camps has ulterior motives, repeats Beijing

Uygur security personnel patrolling in western China’s Xinjiang region. Photo: AP

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