What's happening to the Uyghur in China?

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In the Chinese region of Xinjiang, tens of thousands of ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained inside enormous extrajudicial ‘re-education camps’. China faces mounting pressure from international human rights groups, governments, and academics to end these practices, but will anything help the Uyghurs? Guests: Nury Turkel (Uyghur Human Rights Project) Associate Professor James Leibold (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University) Follow Nury Turkel on Twitter: www.twitter.com/NuryTurkel Follow James Leibold on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jleibold Follow La Trobe Asia on Twitter: www.twitter.com/latrobeasia Theme music: Asian Wonders by Butterfly Tea