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Partly_True: China has exposed a number of Xinjiang-related falsehoods published by the BBC.

By: Praveen Kumar H

August 10 2020

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Partly_True: China has exposed a number of Xinjiang-related falsehoods published by the BBC.

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The Chinese government has refuted some of the BBC reports on Xinjiang, and BBC has not officially responded to them.

The Chinese government has refuted some of the BBC reports on Xinjiang, and BBC has not officially responded to them.BBC had shown a video clip to Ambassador of China to the United Kingdom Liu Xiaoming on The Andrew Marr Show interview on July 19. The video purportedly showed a large number of Uyghurs detained in Xinjiang. The ambassador claimed the coverage was only of a transfer of prisoners in the region. The Chinese Foreign Ministry also refuted a report that claimed the father of a woman from Xinjiang, named Zumrat Dawut's, was detained and died under unknown circumstances. It said that he was never arrested or interrogated, and he died of a heart condition in October 2019. Xinjiang is an autonomous region in China, and there are multiple human-rights concerns raised by mainstream media and different foreign governments. On July 28, France called on a United Nations-led observer mission to evaluate China's treatment of the Muslim minority Uyghur population, accusing Beijing of indefensible practices.

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