US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday denounced China\u2019s \u201cshameful hypocrisy\u201d over its treatment of Muslims as he met a former prisoner and relatives who recounted abuses as part of Beijing\u2019s widespread detention of its Uighur minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pompeo was referring to China\u2019s efforts at the United Nations to prevent the blacklisting of Islamist extremist Masood Azhar, based in Beijing ally Pakistan. Azhar\u2019s group Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility over a deadly attack last month on Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Pulwama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The top US diplomat met Tuesday with Mihrigul Tursun, a Uighur who has spoken publicly in the United States about what she said was widespread torture in China\u2019s prisons for the minority group.\u201cThe world cannot afford China\u2019s shameful hypocrisy toward Muslims. On one hand, China abuses more than a million Muslims at home, but on the other it protects violent Islamic terrorist groups from sanctions at the UN,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She has said she was separated from her children and detained in a cramped cell with 60 other women, suffering electrocution and beatings during round-the-clock interrogations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re working to convince the Chinese that this practice is abhorrent and ought to be stopped,\u201d Pompeo said.The State Department said that Pompeo also met with three other Uighurs whose relatives are held by China, which according to a UN report has detained a massive one million Uighurs as it seeks forcibly to integrate the minority group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pompeo, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, said that \u201ccertainly\u201d at least hundreds of thousands of Uighurs had been detained.According to the State Department as well as international human rights groups, China has confiscated Korans from Uighurs and forced them to drink alcohol and eat pork, which are forbidden by Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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