BEIJING: Authorities in China have arrested almost 13,000 “terrorists” in Xinjiang since 2014, the government says, in a policy paper defending its controversial de-radicalisation measures for Muslims in the restive far western region.
China has faced growing international opprobrium for setting up facilities that United Nations experts describe as detention centres holding more than one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims.
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