#115 What's happening to the Uyghur in China? - a podcast by La Trobe Asia

from 2019-01-29T11:05:15

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In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’.



China faces mounting pressure from international human rights groups, governments, and academics to end these practices, but will anything help the Uyghurs?



Guests:

Nury Turkel (Uyghur Human Rights Project)

Associate Professor James Leibold (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University)

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