More than 100 Christians have been sent to ‘re-education’ camps in China
More than 100 Christians have been sent to “re-education” camps in China’s north-western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the past few months.
In these camps, also known as “study centers” or “mind-transformation centers,” they are taught how to be loyal to the communist ideology.
Most of those detained are from the Uyghur ethnic minority group and have a Muslim background. In recent years the Uyghurs they have been the prime targets of the government’s “anti-terror” campaign, aimed at cracking down on both separatist groups and militant Islamists. But those who have converted to Christianity have also been caught up in the crackdown....
E. A. Johnston | 10/6/2012
