China is insisting that there is no "arbitrary detention" and there are no "re-education centres" in the Xinjiang region after a UN human rights committee raised concern over reported mass detentions of ethnic Uighurs.
Beijing responded today to questions raised by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
A committee member cited estimates that over a million people from Muslim minorities are held in "counter-extremism centres" and another 2 million have been forced into "re-education camps."
China's delegation told the panel that "there is no arbitrary detention ... there are no such things as re-education centres."
It said Xinjiang provides convicted criminals with skills to reintegrate themselves at "vocational education and employment training centres."
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