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Australia calls on China to end its ‘alarming’ mass detention of Muslims
The Australian government has expressed “alarm” at China’s crackdown against Muslim minorities and called for an end to the detention of up to 1 million people in indoctrination…
- Fergus Hunter
- WAtoday, with Reuters
In the strongest Australian intervention yet on the Chinese government campaign, officials delivered a statement at the United Nations highlighting reports that minority groups and…
“Australia shares the UN [Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s] alarm at numerous reports of detention of large numbers of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim groups held incommunicado and…