Chinese hospitals aborted late-stage pregnancies and killed newborns as part of a campaign to purge the Uighur culture, report says

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• Hospitals in Xinjiang, China aborted third-trimester Uighur pregnancies and even killed newborn Uighur children, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported.
• Since 2016, China has operated a hardline, so-called counterterrorism campaign against its Uighur Muslim minority. At last 1 million Uighurs have been detained in camps and brainwashed.
• Uighurs are prevented by law from having more than two children if they live in cities, and three if they live in the countryside.
• Hasiyet Abdulla, a Uighur doctor with 15 years' experience in Xinjiang, told RFA that if women breach that limit their babies will be killed, either in utero or post-birth.
• It is the latest of several reports detaining how China is cutting the Uighur birth rate, including forced sterilization or mandatory contraception.
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Hospitals in Xinjiang aborted late-stage pregnancies and killed newborns as part of China's mission to erase Uighur culture, a former doctor from the region has told Radio Free Asia.

Since 2016, China has interned at least 1 million Uighurs in hundreds of prison camps, which it euphemistically calls "reeducation centers." In those camps, Uighurs are forced to abandon their heritage and religion.

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