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Radio Free Asia, a site funded by the US government, estimated in January 2018 that 120,000 members of the Uyghurs are currently being held in political re-education camps in Kashgar prefecture alone.
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The Chinese navy has around 255 000 personnel. Currently it is the second largest navy after the US Navy in terms of tonnage. Furthermore it has the largest number of major combatants. By 2018 Chinese navy operated a single Liaoning aircraft carrier.
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In total, the federal prison system houses 188,722 inmates within five different security levels: minimum, low, medium, high and administrative.
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In 2019, China is the country jailing the most journalists and 48 are currently being held behind bars.
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According to Bitter Winter, an online magazine discussing religious freedom and human rights in China, Jehovah's Witnesses' activities in China are considered illegal. It also reports that foreign missionaries are deported, members' homes are raided, and members express concern about being followed by police.
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The Uzbeks speak either of two dialects of Uzbek, a Turkic language of the Altaic family of languages. More than 16 million Uzbeks live in Uzbekistan, 2,000,000 in Afghanistan, 1,380,000 in Tajikistan, 570,000 in Kyrgyzstan, and smaller numbers in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Sinkiang in China.
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China, officially the People's Republic of China, is formally a multi-party state under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) leading eight minor parties, in a United Front similar to the popular fronts of former Communist-era Eastern European countries such as the National Front of Democratic Germany.
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Terrorist groups Since its emergence in 2007 it has claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks, and the Chinese government accuses it of over 200, resulting in 162 deaths and over 440 injuries.
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The United States prisoner rate (number of prisoners per 100,000 people) is 737, the highest in the world, followed by Russia at 615. The ten countries with the highest incarceration rates are: United States (737) Russia (615)
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Personnel. As of 2019, some 6,768 police officers were employed, including auxiliary officers and Aboriginal liaison officers; together with about 2180 police staff. (Police staff includes public servants and wages employees, but not school street-crossing guards.)
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The Hui are descendants of Arabs and Han Chinese who intermarried and they share the Islamic religion with the Uyghur in Hunan. It is reported that they now number around 10,000 people.
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In August 2018, a United Nations human rights panel said that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China have been held in "re-education camps".
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Prison rates in the US are the world's highest, at 724 people per 100,000. In Russia the rate is 581. At 145 per 100,000, the imprisonment rate of England and Wales is at about the midpoint worldwide.
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Only three other countries – Eritrea, North Korea, and Turkmenistan - had more restrictions on news media freedom than Iran. The government of Ali Khamenei and the Supreme National Security Council imprisoned 50 journalists in 2007 and all but eliminated press freedom.
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Local authorities are reportedly holding hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs in these camps as well as members of other ethnic minority groups, for the stated purpose of countering extremism and terrorism and promoting Sinicization.
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As of April 2018, there are a total of 993,026 CPL holders in Michigan according to police CPL records. The current pace of new applicants suggests that the number will exceed one million CPL holders later this year.
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Beijing says Uighur groups want to establish an independent state and, because of the Uighurs' cultural ties to their neighbours, leaders fear that elements in places like Pakistan may back a separatist movement in Xinjiang.