Main content
Why isn’t the world doing more to help the Uighurs?
With an estimated million Uighurs in detention camps, China has used a variety of means to successfully stifle world criticism.
With an estimated million Uighurs in detention camps, China has used a variety of means to successfully stifle world criticism. They include its economic muscle, political alliances with like-minded countries and sanitized tours of the facilities for opinion formers.
With Charmaine Cozier.
(Uighur prisoners shackled and blindfolded in Xinjiang, China. Still from anonymous drone footage.)
Last on
Sun 2 Aug 202009:06GMT
BBC World Service except East Asia, Europe and the Middle East & South Asia
Broadcasts
- Thu 30 Jul 202007:06GMTBBC World Service
- Thu 30 Jul 202014:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Thu 30 Jul 202015:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Thu 30 Jul 202021:06GMTBBC World Service
- Sun 2 Aug 202009:06GMTBBC World Service except East Asia, Europe and the Middle East & South Asia
Podcast
![]()
The Inquiry
The Inquiry explores the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world

