BEIJING: China’s domestic security chief has called for strengthened “reform through education” for prisoners in the far western region of Xinjiang, state media said, amid international criticism over a security clampdown.
Beijing has faced an outcry from activists, scholars, foreign governments and UN human rights experts over mass detentions and strict surveillance of the mostly Muslim Uighur minority and other Muslim groups that call Xinjiang home.
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