{"id":83560,"date":"2018-10-13T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T20:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/china-legalizes-xinjiang-re-education-camps-after-denying-they-exist"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:59:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:59:45","slug":"china-legalizes-xinjiang-re-education-camps-after-denying-they-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/china-legalizes-xinjiang-re-education-camps-after-denying-they-exist","title":{"rendered":"China legalizes Xinjiang \u2018re-education camps\u2019 after denying they exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-legalizes-xinjiang-re-education-camps-after-denying-they-exist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in China\u2019s far-western Xinjiang region appear to have officially legalized so-called re-education camps for people accused of religious extremism, a little more than a month after denying such centers exist.<\/p>\n<p>The Xinjiang government on Tuesday revised a local law to encourage \u201cvocational skill education training centers\u201d to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjpcsc.gov.cn\/1009\/t4028e49c665347630166588b8cf40001001.html\" target=\"_blank\">carry out anti-extremist ideological education.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human rights organizations have long alleged the Chinese government has been detaining hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs \u2014 a Turkic-speaking, largely Muslim minority native to Xinjiang \u2014 in such centers as part of an effort to enforce patriotism and loyalty to Beijing in the region.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.gr\/2d83\">http:\/\/ed.gr\/2d83<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in China\u2019s far-western Xinjiang region appear to have officially legalized so-called re-education camps for people accused of religious extremism, a little more than a month after denying such centers exist. The Xinjiang government on Tuesday revised a local law to encourage \u201cvocational skill education training centers\u201d to \u201ccarry out anti-extremist ideological education.\u201d Human rights [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1490,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83756,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560\/revisions\/83756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}