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China Rebuked by 22 Nations Over Xinjiang

More than 20 countries have issued a joint statement this week condemning China’s mass detention program in Xinjiang in what is the first concerted international effort to challenge Beijing on its repressive policy in the far western region, where an estimated 1.5 million Uyghurs are held in what are officially termed “vocational training” facilities. The letter comes after Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov, the Under-Secretary for the United Nations Counter-Terrorism