More than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in re-education camps in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region, where China is also accused of forcibly sterilizing women. China denies the accusations and says the facilities in the region are not camps but job training centers, to steer people away from terrorism.
On January 7, the Chinese embassy in the US tweeted that “in the process of eradicating extremism,” the minds of Uighur women “were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no longer baby-making machines.”
