Amnesty International is demanding China end its campaign of “systematic repression” and reveal the whereabouts of nearly 1 million predominantly Muslim people who have been “arbitrarily detained” in the country's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
The organization released a report Sunday night that includes interviews with more than 100 people outside of China whose relatives reportedly have been tortured, detained, or forced into “re-education camps" from a rural region of northwest China, known as the XUAR.
The human rights group called on world leaders to stop the Chinese government's “vicious campaign against ethnic minorities.”
“Governments across the world must hold the Chinese authorities to account for the nightmare unfolding in the XUAR,” Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International's East Asia Director, said in a statement released Sunday with the report.
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