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China targets Uighurs with more prosecutions, longer prison terms: HRW
BEIJING, Feb 24: China has dramatically increased its prosecution of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang through the formal court system, handing out long prison terms for dubious charges such as “picking quarrels” and giving gifts to overseas relatives, a rights group said Wednesday.These criminal convictions are in addition to the detention of an estimated one million Uighurs and other mainly Muslim minorities in “political education” camps in Xinjiang.More than 250,000 people in the northwestern region have been formally sentenced and imprisoned since 2016, according to Human Rights Watch.“Despite the veneer of legality, many of those in Xinjiang’s prisons are ordinary people who were convicted

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