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Sweden temporarily interrupts Muslim Uighurs deportations to China

SHAFAQNASwedish authorities said Monday they had temporarily interrupted the expulsion of Muslim  Uighurs to China due to concerns over discrimination against this  minority .

“Information from several human rights organisations indicates that the situation for Uighurs has deteriorated” in the western region of Xinjiang, the Swedish Migration Agency said in a statement.

The decision also concerns “other minority groups from Xinjiang who have received expulsion orders,” a spokeswoman for the agency told AFP.

The authorities did not give any details of how many people might be affected by the decision but in early September, the Swedish Migration Agency announced it had suspended the deportation of a Uighur family to China after their asylum request was rejected.

Xinjiang is home to around 22 million inhabitants, of whom almost half are Uighurs of Turkish origin. Many of them say they are discriminated against by China’s Han majority.

Human rights organisations around the world have accused China of detaining massive numbers of people in re-education camps for political and cultural indoctrination.

Amnesty International said in a report Monday that Beijing had rolled out “an intensifying government campaign of mass internment, intrusive surveillance, political indoctrination and forced cultural assimilation”.

Beijing has rejected UN estimates that more than a million members of Muslim minorities are being held in internment camps, FRANCE24 reported.

 

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