The Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in Xinjiang in December 2018. The Associated Press has found that China operated a birth control program targeting Uighurs and Kazakhs. Japan is closely watching human rights conditions in China’s Xinjiang region with concern, its top government spokesman said today, Reuters reports. “Japan believes it is important that freedom, respect for basic human rights and rule of law, which are universal in international community, are guaranteed in China as well,” Katsunobu Kato, the chief cabinet secretary, told a news conference. China has denied any abuses, saying the camps provide vocational training and help fight extremism.

Source: The Standard November 18, 2020 04:41 UTC