{"id":581,"date":"2019-07-24T23:35:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/?p=581"},"modified":"2019-07-24T23:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T14:43:51","slug":"chinas-uighur-policy-is-human-rights-stain-of-the-century-pompeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/2019\/07\/24\/chinas-uighur-policy-is-human-rights-stain-of-the-century-pompeo\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Uighur policy is human rights &#8216;stain of the century&#8217; \u2013 Pompeo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/19\/chinas-uighur-policy-is-human-rights-stain-of-the-century-pompeo\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/19\/chinas-uighur-policy-is-human-rights-stain-of-the-century-pompeo<\/a>    Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;06.28&nbsp;BSTLast modified on Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;10.32&nbsp;BST   Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;06.28&nbsp;BSTLast modified on Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;10.32&nbsp;BST <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US secretary of state says mass detentions of Muslim minority is among \u2018worst crises of our time\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;06.28&nbsp;BSTLast modified on Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;10.32&nbsp;BST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US secretary of state,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mike-pompeo\">Mike Pompeo<\/a>, has accused China of being responsible for the human rights \u201cstain of the century\u201d with mass detentions of Muslims and other minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at an international religious freedom conference that he is hosting in Washington, Pompeo denounced China for its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/02\/report-reveals-how-china-spies-on-muslim-minority-xinjiang-uighur\">large-scale detentions in the western Xinjiang region<\/a>, where an estimated 1 million Muslim Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minorities are believed to be held in internment camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese officials describe the camps as vocational training centers and say they are necessary to curb religious extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WATCH: Trump meets with survivors of religious persecution at White House\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G3fpmFJTMes?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>China is \u201chome to one of the worst human rights crises of our time\u201d, said Pompeo, who also accused&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>&nbsp;of intimidating countries into staying away from his conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, has made promoting religious freedom a priority since becoming secretary of state. But critics of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>&nbsp;have questioned the commitment, noting that its restrictive migration policies threaten religious minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conference was being held just days after the International Rescue Committee and the UN refugee agency warned that the administration\u2019s sharp reductions in admissions of refugees and asylum seekers put many, including religious minorities, at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a report released on the eve of the conference, the IRC said that so far this year the administration has slashed admissions of Iranian Christians by 97%, Iraqi Christians by 96%, Iraqi and Syrian Yazidis by 97% and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar by 77%, compared with the last government spending year of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration cannot cheer on the world to protect religious minorities in one breath, while substantively cutting its own protections for these groups in the next,\u201d said Nazanin Ash, the IRC\u2019s vice president of global policy and advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump administration has also been criticised for not taking a tougher line on China\u2019s religious record by imposing sanctions. Some believe that administration officials have not taken that step for fear of endangering trade talks with China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice president Mike Pence, speaking at the same conference, said the talks would not get in the way of America\u2019s commitment to religious freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/19\/chinas-uighur-policy-is-human-rights-stain-of-the-century-pompeo Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;06.28&nbsp;BSTLast modified on Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;10.32&nbsp;BST Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;06.28&nbsp;BSTLast modified on Fri 19 Jul 2019&nbsp;10.32&nbsp;BST US secretary of state &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuzb.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}