TO BE RE-ELECTED IN TWO DECADES.
HE SECURED MORE THAN 58% OF THE
VOTE TO Le PEN’S 41.
>>> WE HAVE A BRAND-NEW NBC NEWS
EXCLUSIVE REPORT THAT THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS HUNTING
DOWN UIGHURS AROUND THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO THE WOODROW WILSON
CENTER.
CHINESE AUTHORITIES STARTED
ROUNDING UP UIGHURS AND OTHER
ETHNIC MINORITIES AND CONTAINED
THEM IN RE-EDUCATION CAMPS.
ANNA, GOOD MORNING.
WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED?
>> GOOD MORNING, JOSÉ.
THIS REPORT REALLY EXPANDS THE
UIGHUR STORY, SO IT’S NOT JUST
ABOUT MISTREATING UIGHURS AS YOU
WERE JUST DESCRIBING WITHIN
CHINA’S BORDERS, BUT THE BEIJING
GOVERNMENT IS REACHING INTO
OTHER GOVERNMENTS AND BRINGING
THEM BACK TO CHINA AND THEY FACE
POLICE TORTURE IN POLICE CUSTODY
AND GET LOST IN THE VAST WEB OF
RE-EDUCATION CAMPS FOUND ALL
OVER THE WEST OF CHINA.
SO THIS MAKES IT A GLOBAL STORY.
THE REPORT SOMETHING BASED ON A
DATA SET OUT OF THE WOODROW
WILSON CENTER, A RESEARCHER THAT
HAS BEEN LOOKING AT THIS FOR
YEARS, AND TO COUNT MORE THAN
1,300 UIGHURS WHO HAVE EITHER
BEEN HARASSED, DETAINED OR
DEPORTED TO CHINA, AND MANY OF
THE COUNTRIES, IT’S SURPRISING
BECAUSE YOU MIGHT THINK THEY BE
SYMPATHETIC TO THE UIGHURS.
>> SO THE RE-EDUCATION CAMPS,
THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY
CONCENTRATION CAMPS?
>> THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED
CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
YES, THE UIGHURS ARE FORCED TO
RENOUNCE THEIR RELIGION STUDY,
AND THEY ARE FORCED TO WORK IN
COTTON FACTORIES.
SOME OF OUR REPORTING HAS
DOCUMENTED THAT.
STAND FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF
TIME.
THESE CAMPS ARE REALLY PART OF A
BROADER PENAL SYSTEM THAT THE
UIGHURS ARE OFTEN PUT IN, AND
IT’S ILLEGAL IN CHINA TO MEET IN
A GROUP OF TEN OR MORE BECAUSE
IT’S ASSUMED IT WOULD BE FOR
PRAYER, FOR MUSLIM PRAYER, AND
THAT’S ILLEGAL IN CHINA AND YOU
CAN BE SENT TO ONE OF THE
RE-EDUCATION CAMPS MERELY FOR
THAT.
WE REACHED OUT TO THE FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS THAT WE NAME IN THE
REPORT, NAMELY, SAUDI ARABIA,
THE UAE, AND MOROCCO, AND THE
UAE IS THE ONE COUNTRY THAT GOT BACK TO US AND THEY SAID THEY
FOLLOW ALL GLOBAL NORMS, AND SO