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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: There's New Evidence of China's Brutal Repression of its Uighur Population
Description: In mid-August a UN human rights body called the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said that up to 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China were imprisoned in massive internment camps.  Subsequent reporting in places like the Wall Street Journal offered a degree of confirmation that Uighurs were being rounded up, seemingly at random, and sent to "re-education" centers where they are forced to chant communist party slogans, study the speeches of Xi Jinping and also subjected to torture.   Uighurs are a religious and linguistic minority in China. The majority practice a form of sunni Islam and most live in Xinji...