The British broadcaster mentioned “a number of former detainees and a guard have informed the BBC they skilled or noticed proof of an organized system of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture.”
Ladies have been faraway from the cells “each evening” and raped by a number of masked Chinese language males, the report mentioned. Among the girls who have been taken away from the cells at evening have been by no means returned.
Greater than 1,000,000 women and men have been detained in Xinjiang camps, which China says exist for the “re-education” of the Uighurs and different minorities.
Beijing denies accusations of abuse in Xinjiang, and has mentioned the complexes it arrange within the area supplied vocational coaching to assist stamp out Islamist extremism and separatism. These within the services have since “graduated”, it says.
Requested on Wednesday concerning the BBC report, international ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin mentioned it “is wholly with out factual foundation” and the individuals interviewed by the BBC have been “proved a number of occasions” to be “actors disseminating false info.”
‘Deeply disturbed’: US
America is “deeply disturbed” by stories of systematic rape and sexual abuse in opposition to girls in China’s internment camps.
Requested to remark, a state division spokeswoman mentioned: “We’re deeply disturbed by stories, together with first-hand testimony, of systematic rape and sexual abuse in opposition to girls in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and different Muslims in Xinjiang.”
The spokeswoman reiterated US costs that China has dedicated “crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide” in Xinjiang and added: “These atrocities shock the conscience and should be met with critical penalties.”
The official mentioned China ought to enable “rapid and impartial investigations by worldwide observers” into the rape allegations “along with the opposite atrocities being dedicated in Xinjiang.”
America accuses China of committing genocide in opposition to Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Final 12 months, a report by German researcher Adrian Zenz revealed by the Washington-based Jamestown Basis suppose tank accused China of utilizing pressured sterilisation, pressured abortion and coercive household planning in opposition to minority Muslims.