The U.S. on Tuesday called on China to release Muslims detained in internment camps while appearing before a U.N. human rights panel.
U.S. chargé d’affaires Mark Cassayre told China to “immediately release the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of individuals” being detained in for their faith, The Washington Post reported.
Canada, Japan, Australia and several other countries all also called on China to end the camps.
China defended its mass detentions.
“We will not accept the politically-driven accusations from a few countries that are fraught with biases,” said the head of the Chinese delegation, Le Yucheng.
Le reiterated his government’s assertions that the camps help fight the spread of Islamist extremism, saying that “trainees” who used to be “controlled by extremist ideology” have turned from their old ways inside the detention centers.
“This protects the human rights of the vast majority, while also saving these people,” Le said of the camps, according to The Wall Street Journal. “It’s another important contribution of China’s to the global counterterror field.”
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