Governor of China's Xinjiang says U.S. bill violates international law
BEIJING - People held in controversial training camps in Xinjiang have “graduated” and new students will have the “freedom to come and go”, the government of China’s far western region said on Monday, slamming foreign estimates of the numbers detained.
Estimates publicized in foreign media were “pure fabrication”, Xinjiang’s governor, Shohrat Zakir, told reporters in Beijing, however, without giving details. China, which has repeatedly denied any mistreatment of Uighurs, has not provided any official figures of those held in the camps, which it says provide vocational training.
The claims are hard to verify, as China only allows periodic, curated visits to the camps, and there is little transparency into their operations.
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