The  UYGHER Chinese Minority have in recent months been massively detained in China according to confirmation by both UN agencies and Government authorities such as the US. It appears that in the villages of Southern Xinjiang, about 660,000 rural residents of ethnic Uyghur background may have been taken away from their homes and detained in re-education camps, while another up to 1.3 million may have been forced to attend mandatory day or evening re-education sessions in locations in their villages or town centers, amounting to a total of about 2 million South Xinjiang villagers in these two types of “re-education” programs. The total number for Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR or Xinjiang) as a whole, including other ethnic minorities and city residents, is certainly higher. Both types of re-education programs are run outside China’s judicial system.

These detentions have been carried out without a trial or any judicial review by a judge or court. Both types of camps typically set no clear length of time for the incarceration or mandatory attendance. In operating these “re-education” camps, authorities have extrajudicially detained and deprived the liberty of huge numbers of citizens, especially Uyghurs, in some cases, indefinitely, and committed enforced disappearances, torture, and other human rights abuses.

The Chinese government’s purposes for rounding up a massive number of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, most of whom practice Islam, in the two types of re-education camps are ostentatiously to force them to renounce their religion, pledge “loyalty” to the Chinese government/Chinese Communist Party, and inform on others for any suspected “terrorist, separatist, or extremist” acts or views as defined by the Chinese government.

Please appeal to the Chairman or the Ambassador:
Chen Quanguo
Chairman, XUAR Government
Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu Renmin Zhengfu,
2 Zhongshanlu, Wulumuqishi, 830041
Xinjiang Weiwuer Zizhiqu
People’s Republic of China
Email: [email protected] Ambassador
Chinese Embassy
2300 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20008

Dear (Chairman, Ambassador)

May I respectfully raise of the concern of people around the world in connection with the rights of the Uyghur people, and more especially the mass detentions in re-education camps of hundreds of thousands of this minority group I note that among them are family members of prominent Uyghur rights activist Rebiya Kadeer.
I note too, the comments of members of the United States Senate from both political parties that “at a time when the Chinese government is seeking to expand its influence through the Belt and Road Initiative, the last thing China’s leaders want is international condemnation of their poor and abusive treatment of ethnic and religious minorities”.
Freedom of expression and freedom of religion are two basic human rights. We urge China to cease this extraordinary action against the Uyghur people.

Yours sincerely,