The revelations will place further pressure on China over its human rights record, amid a global push for the International Olympic Committee to strip Beijing of the Winter Olympics in 2022.
in 2022.
One facility, the Konasheher260, was built in 2019 and opened in January 2020, next door to a vocational and technical school that was, until April 2020, funded by the World Bank. The Communist Party has also faced accusations that it had begun forced sterilisation and a cultural and linguistic genocide of the ethnic minority.
A Chinese government white paper accompanying the policy confirmed 1.29 million workers had gone through vocational education training centres in Xinjiang every year between 2014 and 2019. The numbers align with previously reported estimates of the detention scheme. The countries have called for independent UN observers to be allowed access to the region. In July, Hua invited US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to view the facilities.
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