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Reported mass rapes in China's Uighur camps - C C - Feb 5, 2021
State Department responds to reported mass rapes in Chinese Uighur camps
https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/state-department-responds-to-reported-mass-rapes-of-uighurs/
INTRO: The State Department said it was “deeply disturbed” by a report that claims Muslim women being held in Chinese re-education camps detaining millions of Uighurs are being systematically raped, sexually abused and tortured.
“These atrocities shock the conscience and must be met with serious consequences,” a state department spokeswoman told Reuters on Wednesday. “We are deeply disturbed by reports, including first-hand testimony, of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang,” the official continued.
The BBC interviewed several women detained in the camps in the western province of Xinjiang who described how one or more masked men would drag women out of their cells “every night” to rape or torture them... (MORE)