The United States has demanded “serious consequences” over reports of systematic rape and torture of women taking place inside China’s camps for the Uighur Muslim minority.
The US state department said that it was “deeply disturbed” by the “atrocities”.
It was responding to a BBC article based on interviews with former detainees and a guard.
China’s foreign ministry strongly denied the “false report”.
The article detailed allegations of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture with the internment camps in China’s Xinjiang region.
According to independent estimates, more than a million people have been detained in the camps, which China says exist for the “re-education” of Uighurs and other minorities.
BBC
