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China is creating a "dystopian hellscape" in its treatment of the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, a leading human rights group warns.
In a report published today, Amnesty International says Chinese authorities are committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the region that is home to the Uighurs.
Amnesty researchers interviewed 55 former detainees in the study and said there was evidence the Chinese state had committed breaches of international law and torture.
A file photo of a guard tower and barbed wire fences are around a detention centre in western China's Xinjiang region. (AP)
The findings detail mistreatment at the network of detention centres China has built in Xinjiang over the past five years.
Uighurs and other Muslim minorities detained were "subjected to a ceaseless indoctrination campaign as well as physical and psychological torture".
According to the report, torture methods included "beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, the unlawful use of restraints (including being locked in a tiger chair), sleep deprivation, being hung from a wall, being subjected to extremely cold temperatures, and solitary confinement".
The "tiger chair" - the use of which has been reported by other activists - is said to be a steel chair with leg irons and handcuffs designed to shackle the body in place.
Former detainees told Amnesty they were forced to watch others locked immobile in the tiger chair for hours or even days at a time.
Inside the camps, detainees were "monitored at all times, including when they ate, slept, and used the toilet", and were forced to speak in Mandarin, the report said.
China has been accused of arbitrarily detaining hundreds of thousands of members of the primarily Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang province. (AFP/Getty Images)
Drone footage of hundreds of reportedly blindfolded and shackled men, who appeared to be Uighur and other minority ethnic groups was shown to China's ambassador to the UK last year. (BBC)
Former detainees interviewed by Amnesty described having to wear heavy shackles and being shocked by camp guards with electric batons or being doused with pepper spray.
And authorities had deemed conventional Muslim practices, including praying, as criminal acts, the report said.
"The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region," Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International's secretary-general, said.
China's reported mistreatment of Uighurs and other minority groups have sparked global protests. (AP)
China has long denied all accusations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang. It maintains authorities are carrying out non-violent re-education of minority groups.
Chinese officials hit back at a joint Australian-New Zealand statement last week on "deep concerns" about the human rights situation in Xinjiang.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing condemned the statement as "irresponsible remarks on China's internal affairs".
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In a report published today, Amnesty International says Chinese authorities are committing crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the region that is home to the Uighurs.
Amnesty researchers interviewed 55 former detainees in the study and said there was evidence the Chinese state had committed breaches of international law and torture.
A file photo of a guard tower and barbed wire fences are around a detention centre in western China's Xinjiang region. (AP)
The findings detail mistreatment at the network of detention centres China has built in Xinjiang over the past five years.
Uighurs and other Muslim minorities detained were "subjected to a ceaseless indoctrination campaign as well as physical and psychological torture".
According to the report, torture methods included "beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, the unlawful use of restraints (including being locked in a tiger chair), sleep deprivation, being hung from a wall, being subjected to extremely cold temperatures, and solitary confinement".
The "tiger chair" - the use of which has been reported by other activists - is said to be a steel chair with leg irons and handcuffs designed to shackle the body in place.
Former detainees told Amnesty they were forced to watch others locked immobile in the tiger chair for hours or even days at a time.
Inside the camps, detainees were "monitored at all times, including when they ate, slept, and used the toilet", and were forced to speak in Mandarin, the report said.
China has been accused of arbitrarily detaining hundreds of thousands of members of the primarily Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang province. (AFP/Getty Images)
Drone footage of hundreds of reportedly blindfolded and shackled men, who appeared to be Uighur and other minority ethnic groups was shown to China's ambassador to the UK last year. (BBC)
Former detainees interviewed by Amnesty described having to wear heavy shackles and being shocked by camp guards with electric batons or being doused with pepper spray.
And authorities had deemed conventional Muslim practices, including praying, as criminal acts, the report said.
"The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region," Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International's secretary-general, said.
China's reported mistreatment of Uighurs and other minority groups have sparked global protests. (AP)
China has long denied all accusations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang. It maintains authorities are carrying out non-violent re-education of minority groups.
Chinese officials hit back at a joint Australian-New Zealand statement last week on "deep concerns" about the human rights situation in Xinjiang.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing condemned the statement as "irresponsible remarks on China's internal affairs".
China's treatment of Uighurs 'like a dystopian hellscape'
China is creating a "dystopian hellscape" in its treatment of the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities, a le...
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