What’s happening to the Uyghur in China?

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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Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea