{"id":310860,"date":"2019-03-28T06:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310860"},"modified":"2019-03-28T06:09:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:09:15","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-demands-china-to-immediately-halt-detention-of-uighurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-demands-china-to-immediately-halt-detention-of-uighurs\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demands China to immediately halt detention of Uighurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310861 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pompeo-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pompeo-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pompeo-502x420.jpg 502w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/pompeo.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday denounced China&#8217;s &#8220;shameful hypocrisy&#8221; over its treatment of Muslims as he met a survivor and relatives of prisoners who recounted abuses as part of Beijing&#8217;s widespread detention of its Uighur minority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMet with survivors and family members of China&#8217;s campaign of repression and mass detention against #Uighurs, ethnic #Kazakhs, and other members of minority groups in #Xinjiang. I call on China to end these counterproductive policies and release all arbitrarily detained,\u201d Pompeo tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cChina has detained more than one million #Uighurs, ethnic #Kazakhs, and other #Muslim minorities in internment camps in #Xinjiang since April 2017. The U.S. stands with them and their family members. China must release all those arbitrarily detained and end its repression,\u201d Pompeo said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cThe world cannot afford China\u2019s shameful hypocrisy toward Muslims. On one hand, China abuses more than a million Muslims at home, but on the other it protects violent Islamic terrorist groups from sanctions at the UN.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, the top US diplomat met Mihrigul Tursun, a Uighur who has spoken publicly in the US about what she said was widespread torture in China\u2019s prisons for the minority group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the State Department, Pompeo also met with three other Uighurs whose relatives are held by China, which according to a UN report has detained a massive one million Uighurs as it seeks forcibly to integrate the minority group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Pompeo said that &#8220;certainly&#8221; at least hundreds of thousands of Uighurs had been detained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We&#8217;re working to convince the Chinese that this practice is abhorrent and ought to be stopped,&#8221; Pompeo added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday denounced China&#8217;s &#8220;shameful hypocrisy&#8221; over its treatment of Muslims as he met a survivor and relatives of prisoners who recounted abuses as part of Beijing&#8217;s widespread detention of its Uighur minority. \u201cMet with survivors and family members of China&#8217;s campaign of repression and mass detention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[666,4751],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310862,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310860\/revisions\/310862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}