{"id":27786,"date":"2021-02-04T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/us-is-deeply-disturbed-by-reports-of-systematic-in-chinas-uighurxinjiang-camps"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T00:27:54","slug":"us-deeply-disturbed-by-reports-of-systematic-rape-in-chinas-xinjiang-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27786","title":{"rendered":"US &#8216;deeply disturbed&#8217; by reports of systematic rape in China&#8217;s Xinjiang camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State department says \u2018atrocities\u2019 against detained Uighur and Muslim women in region must be \u2018met with serious consequences\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The United States is \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China\u2019s Xinjiang region and there must be serious consequences for atrocities committed there, the US state department has said. <\/p>\n<p>A BBC report on Wednesday said women in the camps were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-55794071\">subject to rape, sexual abuse and torture<\/a>. The British broadcaster said \u201cseveral former detainees and a guard have told the BBC they experienced or saw evidence of an organised system of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/us-is-deeply-disturbed-by-reports-of-systematic-in-chinas-uighurxinjiang-camps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State department says \u2018atrocities\u2019 against detained Uighur and Muslim women in region must be \u2018met with serious consequences\u2019The United States is \u201cdeeply disturbed\u201d by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for et&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1854,50,67,47,631,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biden-administration","category-china","category-uighurs","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27835,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27786\/revisions\/27835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}