This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government

Rejected petition Free Chinese Muslim from detention in China.

As of 2019, it is estimated that the Chinese authorities may have detained hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million, of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hui (Muslims) and other ethnic Turkic Muslims, as well as some foreign citizens such as Kazakhstanis, who are kept in these secretive places.

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On 24 October 2018, the BBC released the details of an extensive investigation into China's hidden concentration camps and the extent to which the People's Republic goes to maintain what it calls "correct thought". US-based journals like the Foreign Policy Journal and Center for World Indigenous Studies have labelled these policies as "cultural genocide". Some parties refer to these camps as "concentration camps".

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